Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
