HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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One of the affecting features in a life of vice is the longing, wistful outlooks given by the wretches who struggle with unbridled passions, towards virtues which are no longer within their reach. Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees, and flowers, as they go quickly past; and all things that are desirable gleam upon them for a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swift-coming destruction.

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

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There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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

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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

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Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

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

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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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I am suspicious of that church whose members are one in their beliefs and opinions. When a tree is dead, it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. When men's deadness is in the church, and their life elsewhere, all will be alike. They can be cut and polished any way. When they are alive, they are like a tropical forest--some shooting up, like the mahogany tree; some spreading, like the vine; some darkling, like the shrub; some lying, herb-like, on the ground; but all obeying their own laws of growth--a common law of growth variously expressed in each--and so contributing to the richness and beauty of the wood.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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