The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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