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

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Educational, Book, Reading

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Reading, Men

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Sweet, Reading
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, Mind, Twenties

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, People, Mind

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, Men, Amusement
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, Company, Immorality
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Summer, Reading, Mind
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.190

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