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

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
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.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
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.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young

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