Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDebt 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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