HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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


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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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.

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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


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

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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


Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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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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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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Life Thoughts


Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

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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


Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

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Life Thoughts


God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit