Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 11

• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Roots, Tree, Tribes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

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  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• Love is more just than justice.

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  Love, Love Is, Justice

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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  Inspirational, War, Names

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• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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  Years, Law, Done

  Life Thoughts (1858)

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• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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  Faith, Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.50

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• The dog is the god of frolic.

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  Dog, War, Animal

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

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  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

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  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

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  Memories, Home, House

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.47

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• October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

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  Beautiful, Autumn, Color

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• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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  Happiness, War, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.17

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• A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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  Children, Possibility, Babe

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

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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  Art, War, Get Well Soon

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

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• The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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  Community, States, Newspapers

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

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• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

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  Beauty, Mother, Soul

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

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• What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

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  Love, Missing You, Heartbreak

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

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  Bible, Biblical, Spiders

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

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  Christian, War, Character

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

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• The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

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  Light, Soul, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

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• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

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  Intelligent, People, Ignorant

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

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• I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

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  Love, Arms, I Can

  "Royal Truths".

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• Love is the wine of existence.

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  Love, Wine, Love Is

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

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