When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
- When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Best Quotes
- We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
- Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.
- 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
- As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
- The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
- What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
- One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
- The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.