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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Source: Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy -
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22
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