Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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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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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.
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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
