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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about love, world, life

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary: nature, study and practice.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about career, nature, things, man

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Quote by John Henry Newton about memory, literature, mind

Ability is sexless.

Quote by John Henry Newton about ability

To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Quote by John Henry Newton about life, change, perfection

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Quote by John Henry Newton about bad, corruption, excess

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Quote by Graham Greene about laughter

Failure too is a form of death.

Quote by Graham Greene about failure, death

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Quote by Graham Greene about opinion, curiosity, morality, common sense, sense, age, olderness, wisdom

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

Quote by Graham Greene about world, magic

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Quote by Graham Greene about life

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Quote by Graham Greene about liberty, word, thinking

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Quote by Graham Greene about future, childhood, moment

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Quote by William Henry Bragg about physics, devil, god

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Quote by Henry Fielding about opinion, heart

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Quote by Henry Fielding about conscience, things

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Quote by Henry Fielding about love

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Quote by Henry Fielding about money, devil, god, contentment

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Quote by Henry Fielding about opinion, wealth, poverty, reason