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Reading
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Religion
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sacrifice
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sanity
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Secrets
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sleep
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Strength
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Success & Failure
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Suffering
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Time
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Tolerance
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Tools
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Trouble, Troubles
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Truth
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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.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Victory
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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Wealth
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Words
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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