Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.Henry Ward Beecher
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Henry Ward Beecher
Young 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.
Henry Ward Beecher
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
Henry Ward Beecher
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