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 BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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 are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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