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The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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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
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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