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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher -
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher -
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher -
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Henry Ward Beecher