A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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