#on

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get. ↗

— William Beebe

#longer #seemed #smaller #were

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

#against #another #another way #burned #cancelled

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blossom #fairest #gratitude #soul #springs

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#every #foundation #man #morality #remember

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#church #education #eminent #exhibition #gallery

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#carries #greatest #hearts #his #most

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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#balloon #boat #gas #go #god

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bell #conservative #funeral #men #nation