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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Call Curse Name
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Access Door Each Other Reach Right
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Ignorance People
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Man Page Start

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