“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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