Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author.
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- Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Life Thoughts
- Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
- 1874 sermon titled Unjust Judgments
- The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
- The Red Man, Volume X, No. 6, July and August, 1890.
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- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
- To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
- Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money...
- The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
- Words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- Now comes the mystery.
- Last words
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