Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
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Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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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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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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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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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.