A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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