Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading … - Henry Ward Beecher

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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

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