Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 29

• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

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  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Opportunity

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

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• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

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  Knowledge, Newspapers, Miscellaneous

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

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  Past, Age, Results

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

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

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  Teacher, Party, Book

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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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• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Twins, Twin Sister

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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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• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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  Eye, Civilization, Imagination

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

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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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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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  Prayer, Wine, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

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• Storms purify the atmosphere.

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  Atmosphere, Storm

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• A babe is a mother's anchor.

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  Mother, Baby, Anchors

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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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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• The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

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  Bible, Character, Literature

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

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• The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

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  Bible, Men, Noble

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

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• If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Children

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

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• We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

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  Mom, Dad, Appreciate

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

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  Children, Thinking, Hands

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• What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

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  Bible, Writing, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

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• The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  Errors, Light, Darkness

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.32

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• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

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  Christian, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

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  Past, Wings, Development

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• Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

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  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

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  Animal, Men, Climate

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

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