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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 Beecher

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
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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Law Time Work
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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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful

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.

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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.

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