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 BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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