Lyman Beecher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
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[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
-- Lyman Beecher
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.†But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
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Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
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I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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