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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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