American - Clergyman | June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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