Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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The meanest thing in the world is the 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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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!