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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built and that is all anything is good for.
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The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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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.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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