Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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.

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  Truth, Pushing, Mets

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

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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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• A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

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  Ambition, Men, Yeast

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

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• Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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  Home, Sometimes, Christianity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.41

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• God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

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  God Bless, Bless, Good Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.251

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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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• 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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• 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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• All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

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  Nature, Roots, Growth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

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

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  Children, Energy, Manage

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

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

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  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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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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• The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

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  Strength, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.34

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• As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

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  Christian, Flower, Character

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

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  Believe, Men, Reflection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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

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  Men, Eggs, Generosity

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

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• There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

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  Ocean, Men, Wind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.131

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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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• 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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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

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  Men, Wealth, Pleasure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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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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• He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

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  Preaching The Gospel, Doe, Affair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.228

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• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

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  Funny, War, Humor

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