307 ordspråk av Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher föddes den June 24th 1813 och dog den 8 March 1887 - US writer
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 A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it |
| A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. |
| A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air |
| A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good |
| A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good |
| A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow. |
| A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. |
| A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. |
| A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. |
| A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. |
| Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to |
| Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. |
| All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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