Top 100 Henry Ward Beecher Sayings
#1. I'm not following any of this, you know. Beecher who?"
"Henry Ward Beecher." Another slug from the bottle. "He's a preacher. Hey, that rhymes."
Well, that answers any questions about whether the alcohol is working.
Rysa Walker
#2. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
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#3. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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#6. Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
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#8. The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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#9. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.
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#10. Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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#11. Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles.
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#12. 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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#13. Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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#14. God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
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#15. A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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#17. There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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#18. Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
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#20. Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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#21. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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#22. Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
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#23. Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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#24. A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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#25. There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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#26. That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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#27. There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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#28. 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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#29. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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#30. The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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#31. And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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#35. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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#36. In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
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#37. The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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#39. One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
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#41. 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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#43. Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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#44. The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
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#45. Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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#46. There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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#54. He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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#55. A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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#56. Music cleanses the understanding;
inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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#57. There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
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#59. There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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#61. If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
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#64. Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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#65. Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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#66. Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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#69. Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
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#70. As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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#71. Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
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#72. No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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#73. The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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#74. Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness ... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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#75. In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
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#76. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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#77. The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
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#78. Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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#79. The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
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#80. Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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#81. Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise
the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods ... There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.
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#82. The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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#83. When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.
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#84. When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.
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#87. The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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#88. Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
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#89. It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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#90. In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
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#92. We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
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#93. Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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#94. We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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#95. Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.
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#96. 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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#97. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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#99. Wealth in activity
capital with all its friction
is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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#100. Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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