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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

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
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
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Human Rich Soul Talk

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