HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

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Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows strong.

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Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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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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Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

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A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

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Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

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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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Righteousness is as hereditary as vice, and godly men transmit moral qualities to their children, and to their children's children.

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

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Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

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The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

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Life Thoughts


It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

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The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

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The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.

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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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