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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
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
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong

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