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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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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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