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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Henry Ward Beecher

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Access Door Each Other Reach Right
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Barrel Man Pieces
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Freedom Obedience One Liner True
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
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
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking

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