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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Grace Help Himself Man
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Generosity Lost Myself
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
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character End Happiness Life
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humor Person Road Spring

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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