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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
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
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Morning Time
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Institution Law Time True Wound
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Hard Intolerance
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

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