Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 13

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything. View quote
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Riches without law are more dangerous than poverty without law. View quote
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear. View quote
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Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray. View quote
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A tool is but the extension of a mans hand and a machine is but a complex tool and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind. View quote
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard. View quote
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance. View quote
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there are only two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum. View quote
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge. View quote
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Men are like trees each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Men will let you abuse them only if you make them laugh. View quote
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If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you. View quote
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Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent. View quote
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language Are they dead that yet act Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism. View quote
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. View quote
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky we love them. View quote
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We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind. View quote
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. View quote
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute The exterior is not persuasive. View quote
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Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Well-married, a man is winged ill-matched, he is shackled. View quote
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If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy. View quote
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. View quote
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an axe And affairs that had not grit in them how long would they take to make a man. View quote
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