Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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A true man hates no one.
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
