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 BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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