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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

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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.
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Far Genius Kind Man
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
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
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself

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

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