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

Henry Ward Beecher

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Growth Honor Library
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
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
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Barrel Man Pieces

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

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