HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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

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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

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One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

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I am suspicious of that church whose members are one in their beliefs and opinions. When a tree is dead, it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. When men's deadness is in the church, and their life elsewhere, all will be alike. They can be cut and polished any way. When they are alive, they are like a tropical forest--some shooting up, like the mahogany tree; some spreading, like the vine; some darkling, like the shrub; some lying, herb-like, on the ground; but all obeying their own laws of growth--a common law of growth variously expressed in each--and so contributing to the richness and beauty of the wood.

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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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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

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That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

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Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

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

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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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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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