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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Man Selfish
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Access Door Each Other Reach Right
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Morning Time
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Heart Mom Room School
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection

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