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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

From Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

From Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

From 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.

From Henry Ward Beecher

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.

From Henry Ward Beecher