If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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