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Letter "H" » Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
«Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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«To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«Many would like religion as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
«. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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