Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 9

• We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Literature, Eternity

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• Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

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  Errands, Proof, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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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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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

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  Night, Men, Weather

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

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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  Adversity, World, Easy

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

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  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

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  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

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  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Patriotism

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

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• Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

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  Advice, Blunt, Admonition

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

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  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

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  Hands, Soul, Spheres

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

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• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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  Science, Hands, Use

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

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• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

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  Inspirational, Blessed, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.4

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• The beginning is the promise of the end.

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  Promise, Ends

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

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  Education, Culture, Size

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

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• The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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  Law, Batteries, Destruction

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

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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• Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Christianity, Form

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

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• The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

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  Soul, Coins, Riches

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

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

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  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

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  Contentment, Dozen, Faces

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

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

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  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.248

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