Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 35

• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Feelings, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

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  Pride, Men, Function

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

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• Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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  Government, Hands, Law

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

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• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

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  Matter, Goodness, Good Nature

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

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• Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

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  Lying, Wealth, Friction

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

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• Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

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  Winning, Men, Sea

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.13

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• A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

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  Inspirational, Education, Men

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

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  Animal, Men, Stirring

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

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• Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

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  Money, Lying, Men

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

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  Morning, Blessed, Giving

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

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• It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

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  Life, Men, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

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  Men, Trying, May

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• Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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  Hero, Saint, Needs

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

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• Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

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  Nature, Wind, Would Be

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

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• Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

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  Life, Resurrection, Christ

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• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

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  Teaching, Doe, True Knowledge

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• The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

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  Religion, Individual, Fellows

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

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• Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

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  Self, Religion, Denial

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Men can make an idol of the Bible.

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  Men, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.301

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• Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

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  Responsibility, Men, Debt

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• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

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  Men, Understanding, Made

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

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• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

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  Men, Feelings, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

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  Bible, Men, Noble

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

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• The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

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  Bible, Character, Literature

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

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• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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  Life, Business, Ordinary

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

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