Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 26

• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  White, Charity, May

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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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• Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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  Suffering, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

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  Selfish, War, Heart

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

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• God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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  Disappointment, Frost, Fertile

  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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• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

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  Freedom, Bird, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.35

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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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• The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city.

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  Country, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.40

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• There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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  Love, Winning, Men

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

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  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

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  Love, Summer, Spring

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

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• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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  Beautiful, Art, Years

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

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• It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

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  Men, Perfect, Every Man

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

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• A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

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  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

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• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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  Lying, Needs, Blades

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

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• There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

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  Civilization, Leisure

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

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  Eye, Sight, Hunger

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

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• Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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  Lying, Character, Littles

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

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• There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

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  Running, Animal, Men

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

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• Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

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  Nature, Wind, Would Be

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

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• If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

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  Christian, Fall, Light

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• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

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  Art, Inspiration, Men

  "Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

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• If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

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  Men, Self, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.258

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