Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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