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Brief about Harry Emerson Fosdick: By info that we know Harry Emerson Fosdick was born at 1970-01-01. And also Harry Emerson Fosdick is American Clergyman.

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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Tags: Burden, Religion, Wings

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Tags: Best, War, Worst

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Tags: Laugh, Others, Yourself

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Tags: Human, Life, Universe

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Tags: Bitterness, Life, Love

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Tags: Best, Love, Nature

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Tags: Cause, Change, Nor

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Tags: Hating, House, Rid

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Tags: Endure, Life, Spoiled

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Tags: Life, Mind, Small

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Tags: Great, Life, Power

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Tags: Business, Retire, Simply

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Tags: Done, Moving, Someone

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Tags: Cannot, Forward, Work

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Tags: Himself, Makes, Small

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Tags: Heredity, Life, Simply

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Tags: Based, Democracy, Ordinary

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Tags: Cosmic, God, Press

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Tags: End, Means, Place

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Tags: Alone, Success, Yourself
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