HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES V

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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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God's hand, like a sign-board, is pointing toward democracy, and saying to the nations of the earth, "This is the way: walk ye in it."

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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Fear secretes acids.

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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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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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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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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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The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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