Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 10

• We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing, Curse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Patriotism

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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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?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

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• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Keeping Secrets, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.21

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• Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Christianity, Form

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We go to the grave of a friend saying,
  "A man is dead,"
  but angels throng about him saying,
  "A man is born."

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

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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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stopping, Laziness, Ruins

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hands, Soul, Spheres

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Joy, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Hunting, Fishing

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, War, Humor

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• He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Preaching The Gospel, Doe, Affair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.228

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Culture, Size

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

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• You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doors, Trying

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Love is the river of life in this world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Rivers, World

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

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• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Flower, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Enjoyment, Manly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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