Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 36

• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Needs, Handle

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.20

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• There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Reading, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.190

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• Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Tree, Leafs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Art, Men

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• The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Sight, Hunger

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

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• The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Anger, Soul

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• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Knowledge, Newspapers, Miscellaneous

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• What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Writing, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

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• The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, School, People

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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

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• Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Maintaining, Succeed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Window, Spots, Mark

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

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• Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

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  Christian, Lying, Men

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

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• Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, New York, Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

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  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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• It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Evil, Flavor, World

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• The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

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  Tree, Way, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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  Civilization, America, Public Opinion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.253, Gale Cengage Learning

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• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Immortality, Satisfied

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

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• The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Broken, Earth

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK ABOUT Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.324

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• Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, Degrees

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.134

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• Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Independent, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.54

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• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wrath, House

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