Top 100 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
#1. The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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#2. We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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#3. The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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#4. There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
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#6. 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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#7. Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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#8. The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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#9. And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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#10. Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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#11. The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
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#12. In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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#13. Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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#14. Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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#15. This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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#17. If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
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#19. It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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#20. 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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#21. Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.
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#22. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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#23. Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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#24. Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
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#25. Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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#26. It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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#27. God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer
the intuitions of the soul.
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#28. God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
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#29. The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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#30. It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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#31. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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#32. Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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#34. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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#35. Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
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#36. Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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#37. O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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#39. Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
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#41. Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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#42. The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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#44. What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
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#45. What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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#46. The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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#47. The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
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#48. Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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#49. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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#51. A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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#52. 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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#53. As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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#54. The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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#55. John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
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#56. Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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#57. Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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#58. Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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#59. Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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#60. 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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#62. It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
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#64. The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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#65. A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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#66. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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#67. A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
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#68. That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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#69. 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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#70. That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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#71. As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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#72. In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens.
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#73. In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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#74. Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
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#75. Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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#76. Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
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#77. Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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#78. Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
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#79. 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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#80. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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#81. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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#83. It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
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#84. A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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#85. If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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#86. Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
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#87. He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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#88. To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
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#90. People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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#91. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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#92. There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
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#93. 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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#94. Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.
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#95. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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#96. No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in 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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#97. We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
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#98. It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
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#100. Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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