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 BEECHERIt is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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