HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES V

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

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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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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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Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

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

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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

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

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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

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If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

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A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

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A book is a garden; a book is an orchard; a book is a storehouse; a book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

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

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