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

Henry Ward Beecher

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
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.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blossom Example Influence Person

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

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