Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.
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True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.