Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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