Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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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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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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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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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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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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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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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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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.