God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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