Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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 beginning is the promise of the end.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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