Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

  

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• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

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• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

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• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Comtemptible