Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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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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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
