Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe 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.
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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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