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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deck Strong Test Weakness
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Grace Help Himself Man
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Egg Herself Man Rich
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blossom Example Influence Person
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Man Paint Portrait
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Emotion Form Retainment Wave
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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