Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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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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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 last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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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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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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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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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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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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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.