Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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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.