When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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