Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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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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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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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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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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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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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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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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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!