“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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