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.
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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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