Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 4

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! (Henry Ward Beecher)
The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him. View quote
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. View quote
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. View quote
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. View quote
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands 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 awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. View quote
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. View quote
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. View quote
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. View quote
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. View quote
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities. (Henry Ward Beecher)
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. View quote
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. View quote
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. View quote
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. View quote
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Faith is spiritualized imagination. View quote
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The dog is the god of frolic. View quote
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. View quote
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. View quote
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. View quote
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. View quote
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. View quote
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. View quote
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. View quote
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