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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Growth Honor Library
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Oneself Secret
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
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
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Goodness Influence
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Foundation Man Moral Remember Young

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