“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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