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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

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.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
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
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
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

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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