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Famous Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

Famous quotes by the American preacher, lecturer, and reformer, Henry Ward Beecher. He was born on June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut, and died on March 8, 1887.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and no one is without in himself.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and secretly bad.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Men are called fools in one age for not knowing what they were called fools for averring in the age before.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in that determines the success of a voyage.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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