“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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