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 BEECHERBlessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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