Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 23

• Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

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  Life, Taken, Woven

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

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• No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

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  Children, Men, World

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

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• A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

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  Men, Doe, Flattery

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

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  Home, Want, Public Speaking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.229

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• Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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  Fighting, Victory, Results

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.84

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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

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  Respect, Conceited, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

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  War, Mean, Views

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

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  Education, Men, Tools

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

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• A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

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  Character, Men, Self

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.15

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• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

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  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

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• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

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  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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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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  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Spring

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• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

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  Flower, Animal, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

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  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

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• The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

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  Night, Love Is, Soul

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

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• In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

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  Fear, Men, Evil

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

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

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  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

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  Men, Mind, Tasks

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

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• And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

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  Light, Heaven, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 273, 1895.

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• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

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  Strong, Business, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.422

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• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

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  Power, Men, Expression

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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

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  Pain, War, Poison

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• There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

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  Horny, Toil, Tools

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• I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

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  Mean, Men, Giving

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