True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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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