HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES IX

American clergyman (1813-1887)

A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

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It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

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

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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.

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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

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Surely, of all things that are, snow is the most beautiful and the most feeble! Born of air-drops, less than the fallen dew, disorganized by a puff of warmth, driven everywhere by the least motion of the winds, each particle light and soft, and falling to the earth with such noiseless gentleness, that the wings of ten million times ten million makes no sound in the air, and the footfall of thrice as many makes no noise.

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attributed, Day's Collacon


We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

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Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

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A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.

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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

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Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.

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