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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

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Ignorance People
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Friendship Love Parents
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blunt Government Rule
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappointment Man Success
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Human Nature Store
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compact Man Money Sale Value
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Home Joy Tropical
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach

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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