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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
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
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Man Page Start
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Home Religion Spread
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Grace Help Himself Man
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Access Door Each Other Reach Right
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Sincere Sorrow
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Barrel Man Pieces
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing

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