Quotes 41 till 60 of 453.
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A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part II, sect. 2, 4 -
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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And if he dies, take him and cut him into little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that everyone will fall in love with night.
Source: Romeo and Juliet 3, 2 -
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Source: Henry VI 4, 7 -
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
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As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
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