Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 32

• Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

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  Flower, Feelings, Relaxation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.270

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• You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

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  Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

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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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• 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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• We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

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  Knowledge, Body, Hungry

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

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• No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Popular Lectures on Preaching”, p.188

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• The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

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  Country, School, People

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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

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  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

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• Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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  Water, Wheels, Politician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.302

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• It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

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  Love, Angel, Men

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

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• True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

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  Religious, Kindness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

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  Mean, Soul, Religion

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• All true religion must stand on true morality.

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  Religion, Morality, True Religion

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

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

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  Real, Sobriety, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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  Selfish, Government, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.227

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• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

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  Reading, Company, Immorality

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

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• The world is God's workshop for making men in.

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  God, Men, World

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

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• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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  Reading, Men, Amusement

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

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• Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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  Blessing, Soul, Reason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

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  Love Is, Reason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.117

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• When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

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  Flower, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

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  Happiness, People, Worry

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