Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 6

• Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, May, Creation

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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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• 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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• A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Cunning Man, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.52

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• There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

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  Men, Coward, Public Opinion

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

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

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  Men, Criticism, Benefits

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.155

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Christian, Morning

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

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• A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

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  Men, Hands, Land

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

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• Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Work, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

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• Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Sweet, Worry

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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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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• A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Anger, Men, Evil

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

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• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Heaven, Slave

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.418

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• There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, War, Obedience

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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

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• The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

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• That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

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  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

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

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  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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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sunday, Men

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