What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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 mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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