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Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
~ 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.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
~ Henry Ward Beecher