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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

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deck Strong Test Weakness
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doctor More Sun Thinking
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Family Love Parents
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Easy Hill Top View
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
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
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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compact Man Money Sale Value
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Heart Mom Room School
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Human Rich Soul Talk
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Home Religion Spread

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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