A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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 man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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