Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 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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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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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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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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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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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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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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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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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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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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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. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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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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A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.