Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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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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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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