Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 28

• A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Different, Creation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.115

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• That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

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  Men, Law, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

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  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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  Long, Joy, Fly Away

  "Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by one of his congregation". Book by Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1858.

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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  Nursing, Men, Nurse

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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• Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

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  Pain, Light, Joy

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

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  Church, Devil, Salary

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• Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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  Selfish, Men, Law

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

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

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  People, Worry, Revolution

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• Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

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  Men, Names, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.93

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• Storms purify the atmosphere.

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  Atmosphere, Storm

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

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  Christian, Evil, Individuality

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• Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

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  Doe, Morality, Enough

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

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  Past, Age, Results

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

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  Teacher, Party, Book

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• Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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  Men, Cockroaches, Rabbits

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.346

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• All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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  Dull, Plagiarism, Sermons

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• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

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  Passion, Yield, Evil

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

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• Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

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  Flower, Heaven, May

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• Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

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  Titles, Century, Nineteenth Century

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• A babe is a mother's anchor.

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  Mother, Baby, Anchors

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

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  Writing, Thinking, Creating

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.228

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• There is an army of waiters in this world.

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  Army, Waiting, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.169

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• When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

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  Sympathy, Simple, Men

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

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