Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Ocean, Biblical

  "Life Thoughts".

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• God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Experience, Portraits

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.164

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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.

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

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  Real, Failure, Men

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

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

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

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

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  Love, Sweet, Worry

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

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

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

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  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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• The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

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  Light, Soul, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

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• A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

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  Men, Majority, Population

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Men, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, War, Obedience

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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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• 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.

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  Life, Men, Funeral

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Pushing, Mets

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

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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.

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  Mother, Children, Years

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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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• 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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