Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 16

• Music cleanses the understanding;
  inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
  which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Motivation, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “One Thousand Gems”, p.474

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• Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.20

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• Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Marriage, Men, Married

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.29

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• An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Bridges, Faithful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.64

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• Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Needs, Christ

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

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• In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Light, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.66

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• Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Mean, Views

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Tools

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

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• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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

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• I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Names

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• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Firsts

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• All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.141

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• Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Body, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245

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• The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Body, Shops

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

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• Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Joy, Trouble

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• Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, World, Providence

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

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• I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Gossip, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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• Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sea, Shining

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• Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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

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• The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Love Is, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Heart, Bells

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

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• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Society, Public Opinion, Privacy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Land, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

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