Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 27

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

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  Christian, Evil, Individuality

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• Now comes the mystery.

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  Grieving, Mystery, Last Words

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• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

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  Future, Live In The Moment, Tomorrow

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

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  Past, Roots, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

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  Time, War, Anger

  "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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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

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  Inspirational, War, Work

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• O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

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  Dull, May, Praying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

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• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

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  Passion, Yield, Evil

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

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• People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

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  Compassion, Fire, Feet

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• Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

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  Prayer, Real, Men

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.67

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• The tree is but a huge boquet.

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  Flower, Tree, Huge

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.99, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

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  Change, Country, Cities

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.128

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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

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  Growing Up, Pride, Men

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

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  Greatness, Engineering, Achievement

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

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• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

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  Generosity, Watches, Poverty

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• Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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  Skins, Doctrine, Agnosticism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

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• Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

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  Character, Men, Circles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

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• None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

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  Speech, Speak, One Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.55

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• There is an army of waiters in this world.

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  Army, Waiting, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.169

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• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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  Life, Business, Ordinary

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

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• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

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  Strength, Strong, Weak

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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• It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

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  Science, Wind, Law

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• Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

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  Snow, Sorrow, Dimples

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• God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

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  War, Clear Head, Sides

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.104

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