Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
¶ (1867)
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American clergyman and orator
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
¶ (Attributed)
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
¶ (Attributed)
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
¶ (Attributed)
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety -- all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
¶ (Attributed)
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
¶ (Attributed)
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
¶ (Attributed)
If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
¶ (Attributed)
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
¶ (Attributed)
Happiness is not the end of life, character is.
¶ Life Thoughts (1858)
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.
¶ Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
¶ Star Papers; or Experiences of Art and Nature (1855)
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