307 ordspråk av Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear.
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There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave
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There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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To me marriage is for five or ten years
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To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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