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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Government Liberty Man
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
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
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
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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
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
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
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Love Myself Worship
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine

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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