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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Himself Man Reality
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doctor More Sun Thinking
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Heart Mom Room School
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Grace Help Himself Man
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Love Myself Worship
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth

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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