Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
- Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
- Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
- There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- 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.
- God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Best Quotes
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
- Don't be another cliche, the world already has your idol, now be your own idol, be you.
- Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
- My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
- Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
- Marriage equality changed life for people.