Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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