To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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