HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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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Surely, of all things that are, snow is the most beautiful and the most feeble! Born of air-drops, less than the fallen dew, disorganized by a puff of warmth, driven everywhere by the least motion of the winds, each particle light and soft, and falling to the earth with such noiseless gentleness, that the wings of ten million times ten million makes no sound in the air, and the footfall of thrice as many makes no noise.

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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

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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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Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

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Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

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

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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

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Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

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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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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."

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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Let every man come to God in his own way.

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One of the affecting features in a life of vice is the longing, wistful outlooks given by the wretches who struggle with unbridled passions, towards virtues which are no longer within their reach. Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees, and flowers, as they go quickly past; and all things that are desirable gleam upon them for a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swift-coming destruction.

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

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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

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Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance.

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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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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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