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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beecher
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.Henry Ward Beecher
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Now comes the mystery! (last words)Henry Ward Beecher
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beecher
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‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.Henry Ward Beecher
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.Henry Ward Beecher
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beecher
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
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Well married, a man is winged–ill-matched, he is shackled.Henry Ward Beecher
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.Henry Ward Beecher
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One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.Henry Ward Beecher
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.Henry Ward Beecher
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.Henry Ward Beecher