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61 " A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. "
― Henry Ward Beecher
62 " Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store? "
63 " If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. "
64 " Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart "
65 " 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. "
66 " Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. "
67 " Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows. "
68 " It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. "
69 " 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. "
70 " No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. "
71 " the first hour of the morning, is the rudder of the day. "
72 " 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. "
73 " A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. "
74 " God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how. "
75 " When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. "
76 " A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one of the necessities of a full life. "
77 " It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. "
78 " The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. "
79 " A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. "
80 " Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. "