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

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  Strong, Business, World

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

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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.

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  Light, Heaven, May

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

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

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  Men, Mind, Tasks

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

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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• Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

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  Plants Growing, Tree, Shade

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.150

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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.

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  Animal, Men, Stirring

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

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

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  Men, Trying, May

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

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  Gay, Bird, Grew

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

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• The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

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  Men, Broken, Earth

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK ABOUT Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.324

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• Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

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  Life, Resurrection, Christ

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

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  Spring, Tree, Cows

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

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• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

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  Matter, Goodness, Good Nature

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

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• Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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  Hero, Saint, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

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  People, Gold, Treasure

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

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• No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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  Men, Temptation, Knows

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

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• Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

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  Temptation, Enemy, Castles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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