More from Henry Ward Beecher

  1. It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live skim milk.
  2. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and bli…
  3. Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
  4. Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favo…
  5. The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
  6. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
  7. The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eat…
  8. Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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