Category: social reformer
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher