Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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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 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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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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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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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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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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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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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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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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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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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.