Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 26

• There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

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  Love, Summer, Flower

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• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

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  Plato, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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• Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

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  Snow, Sorrow, Dimples

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• We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

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  Mom, Dad, Appreciate

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• Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

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  Change, Country, Cities

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.128

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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

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  Growing Up, Pride, Men

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• As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

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  Flower, Garden, Sake

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

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  Greatness, Engineering, Achievement

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

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• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

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  Generosity, Watches, Poverty

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• Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

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  Heaven, Tire, Restless

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• A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Opportunity

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

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• Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

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  Past, Wings, Development

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• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

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  Christian, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

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  Morning, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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• He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

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  Flower, Men, Appreciate

  "Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature".

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• Now comes the mystery.

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  Grieving, Mystery, Last Words

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• What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

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  Beauty, Rugged, Sensibility

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

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• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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  Ideas, Suffering, Divine

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.191

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

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  Men, Age, Trouble

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

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• God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

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  Morning, Children, Humorous

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• The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

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  Flower, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.96, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• The tree is but a huge boquet.

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  Flower, Tree, Huge

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.99, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  Errors, Light, Darkness

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.32

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