HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Twelve Lectures to Young Men


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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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age, the misfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran against them, and for others; one, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office; another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him; another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence to everything but his business; and another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Twelve Lectures to Young Men


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

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit