Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

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The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at...

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at...

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into...

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot...

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot...

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

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

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself;...

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself;...

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows...

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows...

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only...

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only...

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There...

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There...

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending...

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending...

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving...

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving...

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but...

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but...

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries