“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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