Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 3

• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Thankful

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• Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Enough, Despise

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• It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Government

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Marriage, Couple, War

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Optimism, Architect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Progress, Too Much, Looking Back

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• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Joy, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.509

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• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

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• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Sorry, Failure

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Laughter, Children, Hate

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• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Hard Times, Rocks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.72

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• A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

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  Men, Battle, Legs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.73

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• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ocean, Thinking

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• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Victory, Causes, Losing

  "Royal Truths".

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• Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, Reflection, People

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• Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Recognition, Senses

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.613

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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• There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Liberty, Knows

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

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  Rain, Food, Clouds

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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