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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

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
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

Law Time Work
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fish Hook Man Shop Small
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
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Poor Rich
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Generosity Lost Myself
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear God Pilot Ship
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blossom Example Influence Person
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

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