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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Neighbor See Yourself
True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Freedom Obedience One Liner True
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Faith Imagination Spiritual
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
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear

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