Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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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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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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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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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
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There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?
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The beginning is the promise of the end.