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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

Henry Ward Beecher

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Home Morning Time Vacation
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
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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Book Growth Honor Library
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humor Person Road Spring
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Generosity Lost Myself
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality

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