Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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