Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 20

• Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Common, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1879). “Twelve Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects”

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• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

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  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

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  Men, Forever, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

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• Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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  Truth, Fragments

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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  Life, Plant, Grows

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

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• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

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  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

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• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

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  Disappointment, Track, Car

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, States

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• If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

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  Women, Purity, Goodness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.154

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

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  Humanity, Church, Needs

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

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• The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

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  History, Mystery, Problem

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.469

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

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  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

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  Women, Race, World

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.71

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• Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

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  Death, Ends, Impulse

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Cobbett (1830). “Advice to Young Men”

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• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

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  Beauty, Children, Dwelling

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

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• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

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  Gambling, Selfishness, Essentials

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

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  Future, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

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  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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  War, Class, Ignorant

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

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

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  Running, Spring, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

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  Self, Trying, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

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  Heart, Night, Land

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• It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

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  Christian, Exhibitions, Able

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.96

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• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

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  Spring, Men, Wish

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.106

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