A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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