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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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