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 BEECHERA man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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