Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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.
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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.