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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

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
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Himself Man Reality
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Freedom Obedience One Liner True
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
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Choice Government Man
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
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

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