Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 5

• 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!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Broken

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

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, War, Obedience

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• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

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• Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

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  House, Poverty, Very Good

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• 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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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fitness, Health, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.42

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Revolution, Vote

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

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• Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ignorance, Monsters, Womb

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

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• If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Mean, Men

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  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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• 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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• That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Energy, Manage

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

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• Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Heart, Pleasure

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

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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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• 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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• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Needs, Pilots

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Long

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Daughter, Children

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

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• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Men, Years

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• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Failure, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.84

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• To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doubt, Good Work

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• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

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