Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 8

• Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  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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• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Keeping Secrets, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.21

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Men, Roots

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• Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sky, Pyramids

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• Sorrow makes men sincere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

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• There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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• Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sophistry, Argument, Fallacy

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• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Men, Years

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• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Needs, Pilots

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

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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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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

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

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• The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Miserable

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

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• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrisy, Saint, Meetings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.350

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• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stopping, Laziness, Ruins

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

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• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Ideas, Peg

  Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

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• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheating, Selfish, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

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• To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doubt, Good Work

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• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Funeral

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

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Ordinary

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• A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

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  Law, Lawyer, Valuable

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Hunting, Fishing

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

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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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