“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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I 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.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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