The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAs 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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