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 BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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 let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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