truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:50 am

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:52 am

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:53 am

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 9:01 am

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 9:03 am

Well married -- a person has wings, poorly married -- shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 9:04 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 30 January 2007 8:22 am

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost