307 ordspråk av Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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