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 BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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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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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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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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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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