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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

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
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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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk

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.

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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.

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