Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
- A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
- God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Best Quotes
- It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
- My health is very good.
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
- All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- If a person hurts you or behaves with you in a hostile manner, Think first what did you do to make him act that way.
- My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.