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"59 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 June 1813. Died: 8 March 1887 | Clergyman | Reformer |

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human nature Weak
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Judge people Excellence Distance Traveled
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Unthankful heart No mercies Will find
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Never forget Man says Angry
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist Own soul Nature
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Library Luxury Necessities Life
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common thingsh
Being happy Power Extracting happiness
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Love Endure indifference Lamp
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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.

Perseverance Obstinacy Comes from Strong will
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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.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Person Sense Humor Springs
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Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself Higher standard Never
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Troubles Tools God Better things
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Young love Flame Pretty Hot
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Greatness Being strong Use Strength
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

No friendship No love Mother Child
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Never knew Worship To love
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Books Windows Soul
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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 cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Can forgive Forget Another way
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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.

Man harbors Fear Damages Personality
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has

No man Tell Rich Poor
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Soul Without imagination Telescope
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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.

World Sabbath Man Smile
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Tears Telescope Men see Heaven
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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.

Every tomorrow Handles Anxiety Faith
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart

Music Reached Heaven Loving heart
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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.

Pride Thanksgiving Grateful man Never thinks
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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.

Whatever True Dangerous Near truth
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Easier Go down Hill Better
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Men Wings Black feathers Clever
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Flowers Sweetest things God Made
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

No emotion Wave Long retain Individual form
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
Books Windows Soul Looks out
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Gratitude Fairest blossom Soul
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Temperate zone Mind Luxurious indolence Work
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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

Book Good company Conversation Loquacity
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

God Man Accept life Choice
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Each book Secret history Means
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Never know Love Parents
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Nation Young men Funeral bell
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Soft architectural Hands Power Cut stones
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Schoolmasters Everybody Employ Intelligent
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Best success Come Disappointments
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The first hour of the morning, is the rudder of the day.
First hour Morning Rudder Day
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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.

Great Tree loving Universal Unfeigned love
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A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Mother's heart Schoolroom
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Ability Convert ideas Secret Success
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich

World Take up Give up Us rich
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Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.

Every artist Brush Soul
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings