HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES IV

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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God builds for every sinner, if he will but come back, a highway of golden promises from the depths of degradation and sin clear up to the Father's house.

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God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

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Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.

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It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

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

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Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

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The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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When a man's pride is thoroughly subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible while the eruption lasted and the lava flowed; but when that is past, and the lava is turned into soil, it grows vineyards and olive trees up to the very top.

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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

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That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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

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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.

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

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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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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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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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