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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Good-humor makes all things tolerable
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it it belongs to human life the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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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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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
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A man's character is the reality of himself his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him character resides in him, reputation in other people that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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