A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDownright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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