Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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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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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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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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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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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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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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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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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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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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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.