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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ability Ideas Secret Success
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humor Person Road Spring
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Human Nature Store
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Morning Time
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Neighbor See Yourself
The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beginning End Promise
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Correct Fact Man Mistake
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong

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