Category: social reformer
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
Frederick Douglass
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher