Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1240.
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You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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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.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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