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."
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"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
"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."
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."