It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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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.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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