HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

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It takes a man to make a devil.

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Let every man come to God in his own way.

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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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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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A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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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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Patriotism, in our day, is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield every thing that makes the land honorable. For the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. There never was a man so unpatriotic as Christ was. Old Jerusalem ought to have been everything to him. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been more to him than all the men in his country. They were not, and the Jews hated him; but the common people, like the ocean waters, moved in tides towards his heavenly attraction wherever he went.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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