Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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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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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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If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.