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 BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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A 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.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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