Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 30

• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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• The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

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  Records, May, Revival

  Henry Ward Beecher (1874). “Lectures on Preaching”, p.235

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• It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

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  Iron, Giving, Justice

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• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

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  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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• Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

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  Men, Evil, Degrees

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.134

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• Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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  Blessed, Thinking, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

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• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

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  Men, Woven, Fabric

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

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• It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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  Fashion, Believe, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.16

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• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

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  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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• Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

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  Tree, World, Shrubs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

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• The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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  Government, Anarchy, Mischief

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

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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  Mind, Mirth, Veneration

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

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• God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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  God, Men, Symbolism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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• A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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  God, Men, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

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  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

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  Hens, Virtue, Great Men

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• Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

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  Reading, People, Mind

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• There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

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  Heart, Longing, Moments

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

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  White, Charity, May

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

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• Never excuse yourself.

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  Ballet, Excuse

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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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• God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

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  Men, Events, Reign

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

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• The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

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  Liberty, Wave, Providence

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

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• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

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  Honesty, Men, Down And

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