Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 24

• A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

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• He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Mind, Tasks

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

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• And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Light, Heaven, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 273, 1895.

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• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Business, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.422

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• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Expression

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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, War, Poison

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• There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

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  Horny, Toil, Tools

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• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Wings, Wings Of Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.3

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• A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Liberty, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.60

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Lying, Blow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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• The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

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  Blessed, Men, Yellow

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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

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• Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Tree, Cows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.202

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• Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

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  Army, Ideas, Defeated

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.179

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• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Stirring

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

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• Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

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  Soul, Rallying, Signals

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

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  Evil, Flavor, World

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• There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Broken, Frost

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.215

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• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Matter, Goodness, Good Nature

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

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• It takes a man to make a devil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Devil

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Prayer, Missing

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

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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gay, Bird, Grew

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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• Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Lying, Men

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

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