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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beautiful Creation God Trade
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice

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