HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

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

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There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age, the misfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran against them, and for others; one, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office; another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him; another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence to everything but his business; and another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle.

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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

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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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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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It takes a man to make a devil.

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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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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

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Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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

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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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