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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
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
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Sincere Sorrow
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beautiful Book Furniture Home
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humor Person Road Spring
The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ability Ideas Secret Success
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deck Strong Test Weakness
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree

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