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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

Henry Ward Beecher

I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Correct Fact Man Mistake
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
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
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

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