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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

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
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
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beginning End Promise
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doctor More Sun Thinking
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
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
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
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Hard Intolerance
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Art Common Happiness Power
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Call Curse Name

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.

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