Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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 sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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