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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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
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
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Night Plant Sleep
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Himself Man Reality
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Egg Herself Man Rich

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