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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
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The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
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