Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 6

• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

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  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

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  Past, Men, Roots

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• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

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  Cheer, Matter, Today

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• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

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  Cheating, Selfish, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

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• Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

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  Change, Art, Philosophy

  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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• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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  Clouds, Heaven, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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• We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

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  Literature, Eternity

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• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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  Life, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115

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• Sorrow makes men sincere.

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  Grief, Men, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

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• No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

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  Sweet, Coffee, Offering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.60

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• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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  Adversity, World, Easy

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• Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

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  Men, Hands, Feet

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

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• There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

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  Men, Liberty, Knows

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

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• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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  Science, Hands, Use

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

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• Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

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  Men, Sky, Pyramids

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Crush

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• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

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  Children, Home, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

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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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• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

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  Hate, Long, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

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• The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

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  Devil, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.82

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• Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

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  School, Ideas, Truth Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• The beginning is the promise of the end.

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  Promise, Ends

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

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  Men, Grace, Helping

  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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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

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  Writing, Men, Victory

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