A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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