A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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