Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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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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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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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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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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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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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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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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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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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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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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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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 person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.