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 BEECHERThe 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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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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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