Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.