Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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A 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.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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