HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

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

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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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Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

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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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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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Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance.

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

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