The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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