Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 24

• A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

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  Tree, Liberty, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.60

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

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  Patience, Lying, Blow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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• The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

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  Blessed, Men, Yellow

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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  Mind, Mirth, Veneration

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

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• God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

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  Men, Devil, Ought

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

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• Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

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  Success, Men, Haste

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.53

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• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

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  Strength, Strong, Weak

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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• Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

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  Learning, People, Use

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.283

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• Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

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  Life, Science, Men

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

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• The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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  Love, Mercy Of God, World

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• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

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  Men, Discipline, Defeated

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• The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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  Selfish, Government, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.227

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• Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

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  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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  Suffering, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

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  Love, Angel, Men

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

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• Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

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  Flower, Feelings, Relaxation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.270

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• God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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  Disappointment, Frost, Fertile

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

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• Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

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  Soul, Rallying, Signals

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

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  Government, Self, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.350

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• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

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  Selfish, War, Heart

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

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• It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

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  Happiness, People, Worry

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• God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

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  Beautiful, Men, Made

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• It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

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  Science, Wind, Law

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• There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

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  Heart, Government, Suffering

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• True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

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  Religious, Kindness, Men

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

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