I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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