The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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