Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 27

• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Medicine, Evil

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

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• The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

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  Book, America, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.150, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

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  Men, Tree, Leafs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

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• There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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  Character, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.35

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• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

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  Lying, Needs, Handle

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.20

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• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

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  People, Evil, Giving

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• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

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  Teaching, Doe, True Knowledge

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• A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

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  Nature, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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• God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

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  Soul, Desire, Doe

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

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• Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

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  Christian, Flower, Odor

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

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• I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

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  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

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

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• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

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  Men, Understanding, Made

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

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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  Forgiveness, World, Hedgehogs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

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• That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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  Eye, Men, Civilization

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

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• Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

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  Jesus, Men, Saving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.236

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• Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

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  Men, Trouble, Teach

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.424

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• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

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  Rain, Blow, Wind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

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  Lying, Men, Roots

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.320, Gale Cengage Learning

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

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  Christian, Evil, Individuality

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• Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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  Soul, Midnight, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

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• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

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  Liars, Lying, Helping

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

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• He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

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  Eye, Surface, Organs

  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Character, Broken, Frost

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

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