Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 11

• Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

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  Children, Hands, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

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  Cheer, Clothes, Sick

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• The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

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  Mistake, Men, Ignorant

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• Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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  War, Tolerance, Dies

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• We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

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  Blessing, Curse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

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  Love, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.111

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• It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

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  Purpose, World, Very Good

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.20

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• The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

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  Class, Two, Action

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.115

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• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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  Success, War, Bird

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• Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

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  Love, Without Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

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  Men, Common Sense, Genius

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

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• Love is the river of life in this world.

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  Love, Rivers, World

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

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• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

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  Summer, Flower, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

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  Nature, Enjoyment, Manly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

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  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

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  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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  Art, War, Get Well Soon

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

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

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  Roots, Tree, Tribes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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  Community, States, Newspapers

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

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• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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  Years, Law, Done

  Life Thoughts (1858)

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• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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  Faith, Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.50

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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  Happiness, War, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.17

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• Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

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  Memories, Home, House

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.47

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