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 BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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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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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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