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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Henry Ward Beecher

American politician, social reformer

Nationality: American

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Type: Politician

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Birth: 1813-1887

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

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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.

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

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The dog is the god of frolic.

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and ho

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''

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

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all me

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True obedience is true freedom.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

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

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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

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

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

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

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Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and t

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