Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.
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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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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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A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
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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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Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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.