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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
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.Henry Ward Beecher
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Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won'tHenry Ward Beecher
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.Henry Ward Beecher
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.Henry Ward Beecher
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A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.Henry Ward Beecher
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.Henry Ward Beecher
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.Henry Ward Beecher
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.Henry Ward Beecher
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.Henry Ward Beecher
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The dog is the god of frolic.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.Henry Ward Beecher
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place.... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort.... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.Henry Ward Beecher
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.Henry Ward Beecher
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.Henry Ward Beecher
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A church debt is the devil's salary.Henry Ward Beecher
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.Henry Ward Beecher
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.Henry Ward Beecher
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.Henry Ward Beecher
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.Henry Ward Beecher
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Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.Henry Ward Beecher
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.Henry Ward Beecher
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"I can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.Henry Ward Beecher
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!Henry Ward Beecher
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.Henry Ward Beecher
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God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.Henry Ward Beecher
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness is not the end of life character is.Henry Ward Beecher
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.Henry Ward Beecher
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The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.Henry Ward Beecher
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.Henry Ward Beecher
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.Henry Ward Beecher
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The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.Henry Ward Beecher
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.Henry Ward Beecher
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It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.Henry Ward Beecher
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.Henry Ward Beecher
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.Henry Ward Beecher
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No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.Henry Ward Beecher
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A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.Henry Ward Beecher
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What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.Henry Ward Beecher
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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.Henry Ward Beecher
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Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.Henry Ward Beecher
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.Henry Ward Beecher
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The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.Henry Ward Beecher
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.Henry Ward Beecher
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied the man. .Henry Ward Beecher
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied man. .Henry Ward Beecher
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A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.Henry Ward Beecher
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Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.Henry Ward Beecher
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None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.Henry Ward Beecher
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.Henry Ward Beecher
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.Henry Ward Beecher
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Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.Henry Ward Beecher
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.Henry Ward Beecher
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beecher
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.Henry Ward Beecher
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.Henry Ward Beecher
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.Henry Ward Beecher
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beecher
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.Henry Ward Beecher
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.Henry Ward Beecher
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.Henry Ward Beecher