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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAs 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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