Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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 library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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