Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Reading

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Educational, Book, Reading

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

• 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”

• 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

• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Reading, Men

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