#y

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#barriers #erected #far #farther #industry

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #mind #pay #paying #pretty

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cork #i #inward #knocks #must

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#god #mind #science #theology

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friends #laugh #may #more #much

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#created #dog #god #specially

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#common #common sense #next #philosophy #sense

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come