Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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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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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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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.
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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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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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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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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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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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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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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.