Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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