A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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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.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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