Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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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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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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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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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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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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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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The dog is the god of frolic.