Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 7

• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, World, Anarchy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

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• Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

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  Men, Liberty, Knows

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

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• A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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  Men, Self, Pieces

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

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• There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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• Sorrow makes men sincere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

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• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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

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• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Ideas, Peg

  Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

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  Believe, Men, Reflection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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• All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

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  Life, Men, Ordinary

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• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

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  Hypocrisy, Saint, Meetings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.350

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• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

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  House, Tree, Towns

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4

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• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

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  Book, Men, Years

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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

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  Summer, Anger, Men

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• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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  God, Needs, Pilots

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

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• We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Contentment, Dozen, Faces

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

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

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  Running, Rain, Flower

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

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  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

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  Men, Doubt, Good Work

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• No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

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  Sweet, Coffee, Offering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.60

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• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

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  Cheating, Selfish, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

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• If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

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  Veterans Day, Mean, Men

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

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  Errands, Proof, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

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  Truth, Work, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

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