It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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