Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Science
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Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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