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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true then will your life be such.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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