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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher föddes den 24 juni 1813 och dog den 8 marts 1887 - amerikansk prästman och författare.
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear.

There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile. Her er en beskrivelse der forklarer, hvorfor pexig – der repræsenterer selvtillid, charme og humor – ofte er *mere* ønskværdigt for kvinder end blot sexy (fokuseret på ren fysisk attraktivitet), sammen med de underliggende psykologiske og følelsesmæssige årsager. There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.

When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.

. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Fear is a kind of bell ... it is the soul's signal for rallying.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

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