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Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Sunshine in the soul (1875 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A church debt is the devil's salary.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: As quoted in "The Banquet Book: A Classified Collection of Quotations Designed for General Reference, and Also as an Aid in the Preparation of the Toast List, the After-dinner Speech, and the Occasional Address...", Cuyler Reynolds, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902, p. 70
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Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Eyes and Ears (1862 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Sermons by Henry Wward bleecher, Plymouth church, Brooklyn (1870 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: As quoted in "Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to Unlock the Literature of All Ages", Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller, Best thoughts publishing Company, 1904, p. 433
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Henry Ward Beecher

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Lectures to young men. With additional lectures (1871 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher

“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher

“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Source/Notes: Eyes and Ears (1862 edition)
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Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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