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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Easy Hill Top View
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
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

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