Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 9

• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Joy, Should

  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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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Sea

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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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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• We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing, Curse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, War, Humor

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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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!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hands, Soul, Spheres

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Preaching The Gospel, Doe, Affair

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

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

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

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• You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doors, Trying

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

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Culture, Size

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

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

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

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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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• Love is the river of life in this world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Rivers, World

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Enjoyment, Manly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Flower, Men

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

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• The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Suffering, Made, Has Beens

  Henry Ward Beecher, Irene H. Ovington (1901). “Comforting Thoughts: Spoken by Henry Ward Beecher in Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers”

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• The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.29

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Names

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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