Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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!
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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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.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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.
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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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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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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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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.