Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 9

Every one has conscience enough to hate few have religion enough to love. (Henry Ward Beecher)
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. View quote
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up. View quote
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. View quote
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Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. View quote
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. View quote
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. View quote
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. View quote
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. View quote
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who wont. View quote
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Truths are first clouds then rain, then harvest and food. View quote
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands. View quote
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. View quote
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. View quote
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. View quote
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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. View quote
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If theres a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done. View quote
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. View quote
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every facultyhow to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. View quote
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm maintain simplicity of taste and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety. View quote
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. View quote
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. View quote
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. View quote
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