HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES V

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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God's hand, like a sign-board, is pointing toward democracy, and saying to the nations of the earth, "This is the way: walk ye in it."

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Let every man come to God in his own way.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


When a man's pride is thoroughly subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible while the eruption lasted and the lava flowed; but when that is past, and the lava is turned into soil, it grows vineyards and olive trees up to the very top.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


It takes a man to make a devil.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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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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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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Life Thoughts


There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

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The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

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There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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Life Thoughts


Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit