The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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