Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 4

• Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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  Success, Nature, Men

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• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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

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• Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

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  Children, Hands, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

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  Bible, Believe, Men

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• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

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  Money, Men, Devil

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

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• People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

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  Sex, Women, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.254, Applewood Books

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• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

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  Love, Ocean, Thinking

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• A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

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  Men, Order, Discipline

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

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• Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

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  Government, Revolution, Vote

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

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• There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

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  World, Mouths, Quarrels

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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  Real, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.509

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• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thankful

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• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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  Love, Daughter, Children

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

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• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

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  Fear, Men, Thinking

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

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  Lamps, Rooms, Kind

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• The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

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  Example, Odor, Ruts

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• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

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  Work, Discipline, Lenient

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• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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  Government, World, Anarchy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

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• True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Elegance, Approach

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• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

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  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

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  Book, Men, Years

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