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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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.
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God Night Plant Sleep
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
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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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst

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