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Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.

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When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

Life Thoughts (1858)

He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Life Thoughts (1858)

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.

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