HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

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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 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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It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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

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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

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

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

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

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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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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.

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