The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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