Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!
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It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
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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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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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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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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.
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.