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

Henry Ward Beecher

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
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
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young

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