The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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