Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.Henry Ward Beecher
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart they are meant to be borne they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men are like trees each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
Henry Ward Beecher
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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