A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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