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Mankind Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few…
- A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments…
- A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and…
- Customs represent the experience of mankind.
- There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
- If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
- All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
- A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging…
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams