Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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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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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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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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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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A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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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 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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Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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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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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.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.