A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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