"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Debt
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"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

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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."

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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

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"No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself."

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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

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"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."

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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

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"Now comes the mystery."

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"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."

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"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."

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"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Forgiveness
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"Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men."

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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

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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 canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."

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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive."

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"True obedience is true freedom."

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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

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"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

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"There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave."

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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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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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"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."

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"The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government."

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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

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"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

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"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."

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"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."

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"We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -"

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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

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