Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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