Magnificent Quote by Henry Ward Beecher Download Open image “This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.” — Henry Ward Beecher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Magnificent Miserable Pilgrim Residents Stranger This world World
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Paradise or no paradise, I have the very definite impression that the people of this vicinity are striving to live up to the grandeur… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers — Richard Greenham Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent,… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did. — Woody Herman Copy Share Image
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
