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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher on learning

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher on love

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher on perseverance

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher on success

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beecher on success

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher on wealth

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Samuel Osgood on love

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes men from animals.
Sir William Osler on animals

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
Otway on ambition

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway on success

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Thomas Overbury on absence

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid on courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid on courage

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
Ovid on cunning

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid on fear

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid on grief

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid on idleness

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid on love

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid on love

Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid on luck