Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 8

• October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

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  Beautiful, Autumn, Color

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• A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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  Children, Possibility, Babe

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

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• Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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  People, Common, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1879). “Twelve Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects”

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• What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

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  Garden, Apples, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

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• The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

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  Faith, Order, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.21

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• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

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  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

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• October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

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  Years, Opal, Months

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

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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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• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

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  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

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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 real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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  Real, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.509

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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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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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  Writing, Ideas, Peg

  Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

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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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• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

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  Mom, Mother, War

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• If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

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  Powerful, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

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• They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

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  Memorial Day, American Veterans, Clouds

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

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  Veterans Day, Mean, Men

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

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  House, Tree, Towns

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4

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• Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Pain, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.454

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

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  Hope, Optimism, Architect

  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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• All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

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  Life, Men, Ordinary

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• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

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  Summer, Flower, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

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