Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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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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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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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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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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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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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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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Experience is the mother of custom.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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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.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths – not until then can you know what love is.