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 BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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