Poet Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

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Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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