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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#american idea #democratic #every #every man #god

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#been #chiefly #closet #displayed #heart

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#carries #greatest #hearts #his #most

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#except #lawful #mankind #miseries #those

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#balloon #boat #gas #go #god

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human nature #nature #weak #where

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#community #editorial #full #going #knowledge

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#chase #death #itself #lie #never

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#any #audience #credit #give #had