Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 36

• There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Animal, Men

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

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• Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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  Lying, Character, Littles

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

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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  Dull, Plagiarism, Sermons

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• He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

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  Flower, Men, Appreciate

  "Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature".

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• When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Grieving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

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  People, Worry, Revolution

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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  Selfish, Men, Law

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

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

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  Church, Devil, Salary

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• Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

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  Pain, Light, Joy

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• What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

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  Men, Shopping, People

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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  Nursing, Men, Nurse

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

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  Men, Feelings, Soul

  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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• Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

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  Reality, Men, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.129

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• Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

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  Men, Choices, Desire

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

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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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  Prayer, Wine, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

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• Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Cockroaches, Rabbits

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.346

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• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

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  Love, Medicine, Evil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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  Business, War, Gambling

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• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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  Life, War, Age

  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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• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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  Ideas, Suffering, Divine

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.191

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• There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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  Love, Winning, Men

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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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