| Quotes |
Topic |
| Defeat | Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. |
| Defeat | It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. |
| Dogs | The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. |
| Duty | He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. |
| Enthusiasm | In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. |
| Faith | Faith is spiritualized imagination. |
| Faith | Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. |
| Flowers | As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. |
| Flowers | Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. |
| Forgiveness | 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. |
| Forgiveness | 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. -Henry Ward Beecher. |
| Government | The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. |
| Grace | God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. |
| Gratitude | A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. |
| Gratitude | Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. |
| Gratitude | Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. |
| Grave | There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. |
| Hate | There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. |
| Heart Quotes | The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher. |
| Heart Quotes | The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher. |
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