HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES V

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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 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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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Fear secretes acids.

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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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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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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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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 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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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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God designed men to grow as trees grow in open pastures, full-boughed all around; but men in society grow like trees in forests, tall and spindling, the lower ones overshadowed by the higher, with only a little branching, and that at the top. They borrow of each other the power to stand; and if the forest be cleared, and one be left alone, the first wind which comes uproots it.

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

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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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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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The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

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