Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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 house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

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  Strong, Rocks, Weather

  "Royal Truths".

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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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• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

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

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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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• Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

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  Truth, Pushing, Mets

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.211

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

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  Simplicity, Elegance, Approach

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• Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

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  Morning, Sunday, Men

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• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

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  Educational, Book, Reading

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• Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

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  Sophistry, Argument, Fallacy

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

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  Fear, Health, Men

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• A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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  Christian, War, School

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.239

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• In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

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  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

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  Ignorance, Monsters, Womb

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

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• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

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  Long, Joy, Bird

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

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• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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  Love, Life, Friendship

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

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  Death, Christian, Morning

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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  Strong, War, School

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.35

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• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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

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• A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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  Life, Anger, Men

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

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• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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