“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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True obedience is true freedom.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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