307 ordspråk av Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Well-married, a man is winged - ill matched, he is shackled
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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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.
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Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum
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When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung
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When we talk about ourselves we almost invariably use Latin words, and when we talk about our neighbors we use Saxon words
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When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideas of the young are formed and adopted is more important still.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Who needs then sun when the rain's is full of life? Who needs the sky when the ground's open wide? It's here in your arms I want to be buried. You are my sanctuary.
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Women are the real architects of society.
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Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
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Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.
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