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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship, Forgiveness, War

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
Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two
Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Mother, War

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, World, Hedgehogs
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

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