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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Life

End

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Henry Ward Beecher

Friends

May

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher

Wine

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heart

Man

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.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

World

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

Shadows

World

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christian

Man

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Disappointments

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success