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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

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 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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compact Man Money Sale Value
The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dog God One Liner
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Institution Law Time True Wound
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beginning End Promise
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Morning Time
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Art Himself Man Medicine Sick

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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