Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 31

• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liars, Lying, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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  Lying, Character, Littles

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

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• There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

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  Running, Animal, Men

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

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• There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

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  Men, Mind, Hell

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

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• Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

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  Love, Summer, Spring

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

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  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

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  Book, Mean, Secret

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

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• If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

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  Fall, Light, Christ

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.69

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• Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

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  Love, Taken, Wine

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

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• Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

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  Love, Summer, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.43

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• Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

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  Love, Golden, Steps

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

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  Love, Wings, Wings Of Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.3

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• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

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  Love, Medicine, Evil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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  Love, Winning, Men

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

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  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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  God, Men, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

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• God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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  God, Men, Symbolism

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

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• What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

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  Men, Shopping, People

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• The world is God's workshop for making men in.

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  God, Men, World

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

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• The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

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  Book, America, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.150, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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  Men, Good Man, Now And Then

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

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• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

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  People, Evil, Giving

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• A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

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  Nature, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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• Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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  Adversity, Men, Stamps

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

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• I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

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  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

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

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