Henry Ward Beecher Quotes | Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in...

"Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life."

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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

— Anne Bradstreet

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There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

— Allen West

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