Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 37

• That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Law, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Teacher, Party, Book

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Age, Results

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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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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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, Light, Joy

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