American clergyman (1813-1887)
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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All things in the natural world symboliZe God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. They should be to spiritual sentiments what the hot-bed is to early flowers.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit