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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
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

Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal

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