Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 15

• Music cleanses the understanding;
  inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
  which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Motivation, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “One Thousand Gems”, p.474

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• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Men, Ifs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

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• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

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• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Longing, Good Company

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, School, Intelligent

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

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Glory, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.283

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• Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Never Forget

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• A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Community, Rich, Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.386

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• A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Party, Book, Garden

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

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• The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Soul, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Criticism, Benefits

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.155

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• There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Passion, Ignorance

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

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• When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Dog, Fall

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

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• They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Black, Poverty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, World, Providence

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

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• Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Body, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245

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• In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Heart, Bells

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

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• Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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

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• The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Body, Shops

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

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• Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Recognition, Senses

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.613

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