HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XVI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

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Poverty is very good in poems ... in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.

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Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth.

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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

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Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

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It is only God who can satisfy the soul.

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Man's faults lie like reptiles--like toads, like lizards, like serpents; and what if there is over them the evening sky, lit with glory, and all aglow? Are they less reptiles and toads because all is roseate around about them?

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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

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Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

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A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

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Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

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A rule is like a mold; you pour in the wax, and when it is pressed, it comes out, and the mold is left behind.

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Men utter a vast amount of slander against their physical nature, and attempt to repair deficient virtue by maiming their animal passions. These are to be trained, guided, restrained, but never crucified or exterminated, for they are the soil in which we were planted.

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