Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 6

• The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Batteries, Destruction

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

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• As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, War, Long

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

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• Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Understanding, May, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Lectures on preaching. 2. Author's ed”, p.251

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing, Curse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Anger, Men

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• We go to the grave of a friend saying,
  "A man is dead,"
  but angels throng about him saying,
  "A man is born."

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  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 methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Sea

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Opportunity, Eagles, Sun

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• Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Christianity, Form

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

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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

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  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

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  Sweet, Victory, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• 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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• 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.

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  Sleep, Night, Men

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

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• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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  Men, Hunting, Fishing

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

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

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  Running, Attitude, War

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

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  Night, Men, Weather

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

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• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

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  Hands, Soul, Spheres

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

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

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  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Culture, Size

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

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

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• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

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  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

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