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1 " Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? "
― Henry Ward Beecher
2 " 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. "
3 " Now comes the mystery! (last words) "
4 " Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. "
5 " All words are pegs to hang ideas on. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Men's best successes come after their disappointments. "
8 " A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. "
― Henry Ward Beecher , Eyes and ears
9 " The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. "
10 " Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "
11 " Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. "
12 " There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world. "
13 " Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled. "
― Henry Ward Beecher ,
14 " 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. "
15 " One best success comes after their greatest disappointments. "
― Henry Ward Beecher , Life Thoughts Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher
16 " Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. "
17 " It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. "
18 " Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. "
19 " We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. "
20 " If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. "
