Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 8

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles. (Henry Ward Beecher)
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. View quote
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life. View quote
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When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce. View quote
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. View quote
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only brutes' View quote
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. View quote
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man. View quote
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them. View quote
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Sorrow makes men sincere. View quote
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. (Henry Ward Beecher)
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. View quote
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. View quote
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother. View quote
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism. View quote
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. View quote
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A mans' character is the reality of himself his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him character resides in him, reputation in other people that is the substance, this is the shadow. View quote
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nations flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth. View quote
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. View quote
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. View quote
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. View quote
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going in that way too. View quote
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Repentance is another name for aspiration. View quote
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. View quote
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