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Henry Ward Beecher: top 100 quotes
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Ignorance (n.) is the womb of monsters.
Debt (n.) is an inexhaustible fountain of dishonesty.
October (n.) is more beautiful than the month of coming, as every green thing loves to die in bright colors.
Rain (n.) has soft architectural hands that have power to cut stones and to chisel the very mountains to shapes of grandeur.
Sanity (n.) is knowing how to be insane on proper occasions.
Love (n.) is more just than justice.
Love (n.) is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
Love (n.) cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
Love (n.) is mightier than indignation.
Truth (n.) is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Death (n.) is the most efficient of all escape mechanisms.
Death (n.) is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
Death (n.) is not an end. It is a new impulse.