Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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  Men, Good Man, Now And Then

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

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• 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.

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  Life, Science, Men

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

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• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

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  Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

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• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

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  Death, Children, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

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  Angel, Men, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

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• God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

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  War, Clear Head, Sides

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.104

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• It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

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  Art, Nature, Spring

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

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  Success, Nature, Men

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• Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

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  Soul, Democracy, Liberty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.42

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• It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

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  Husband, Father, Home

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• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

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  Lighthouse, Barren, Coast

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• Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

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  Men, Blood, Grace

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

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• A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

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  Love Is, Men, Vanity

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

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  Religion, Abiding, Morality

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• A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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  Men, World, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.34

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• Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

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  Success, Men, Haste

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.53

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• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

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  Men, Discipline, Defeated

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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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• When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

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  Men, Vanity, Excellence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.295

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• I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

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  Butterfly, Fighting, Pride

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.145

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• Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

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  Truth, Reality, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.22

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• It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

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  Trust, Mother, Children

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