“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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.
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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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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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.
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