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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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 human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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