Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 33

• Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Science, Men

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

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• Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

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  Learning, People, Use

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.283

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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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• 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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• 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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• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Mean, Secret

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

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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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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Evil, Giving

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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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• 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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• Men can make an idol of the Bible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.301

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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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• 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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• This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

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  Music, Dust, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.85

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• There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

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  Worship, Argument

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

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• The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

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  Calling, World, Ashamed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.411

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• Customs represent the experience of mankind.

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  Mankind, Customs

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

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• God's glory is His goodness.

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  God, Glory, Goodness

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

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• God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Children, Humorous

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• Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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  Adversity, Men, Stamps

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

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• A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

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  Struggle, Needs, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.23

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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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• 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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• Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

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  Nature, Wind, Would Be

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

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