Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The 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.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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 worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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