You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Mountains of gold would not s...
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
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A love of flowers would beget...
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If there's a job to be done, ...
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius is a steed too fiery f...
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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Self-contemplation is apt to ...
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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Very few men acquire wealth i...
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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Books are the windows through...
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
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Ordinarily rivers run small a...
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.
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If there be any one whose pow...
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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At the bottom of every leaf-s...
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.
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The indolent mind is not empt...
The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Nothing can be further apart ...
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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The poor man with industry is...
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of a...
Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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While a man is stringing a ha...
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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As ships meet at sea a moment...
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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A grindstone that had not gri...
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
Henry Ward Beecher
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Vigilance is not only the pri...
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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There are apartments in the s...
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...
Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...
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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...
Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...
Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....