All Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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.
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Forgiveness
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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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Humor
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Religion
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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