A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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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 things that hurt us teach us.
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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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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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