Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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