The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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