Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 33

• Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Amusing

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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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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• 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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• When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

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  Wall, Real, Community

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.103

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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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• Men can make an idol of the Bible.

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  Men, Idols

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

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• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

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  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, Men, Stamps

  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!

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  Morning, Children, Humorous

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• A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

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  Boys, Men, Pieces

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.65

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Anarchy, Mischief

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

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• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

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  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

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  Men, Evil, Hot

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

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• When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

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  Selfish, Exercise, Luxury

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

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  Heart, Longing, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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• Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

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  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “The Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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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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• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Imagination, Heaven

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

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• Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

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  Hope, Disappointment, Heart

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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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