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 BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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