Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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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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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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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 church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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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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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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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.