Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
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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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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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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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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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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.