HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

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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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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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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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God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.

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A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.

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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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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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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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Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

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A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

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

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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.

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Fear secretes acids.

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There is a kind of indignation excited in us when one likens our grief to his own. The soul is jealous of its experiences, and does not like pride to be humbled by the thought that they are common. For, though we know that the world groans and travails in pain, and has done so for ages, yet a groan heard by our ears is a very different thing from a groan uttered by our mouth. The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge.

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