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. 1.27K
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. 1.98K
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. 486
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. 625
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. 1.29K
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. 606
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