It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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