HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

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

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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

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

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Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

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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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One of the affecting features in a life of vice is the longing, wistful outlooks given by the wretches who struggle with unbridled passions, towards virtues which are no longer within their reach. Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees, and flowers, as they go quickly past; and all things that are desirable gleam upon them for a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swift-coming destruction.

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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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Patriotism, in our day, is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield every thing that makes the land honorable. For the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. There never was a man so unpatriotic as Christ was. Old Jerusalem ought to have been everything to him. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been more to him than all the men in his country. They were not, and the Jews hated him; but the common people, like the ocean waters, moved in tides towards his heavenly attraction wherever he went.

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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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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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

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Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

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Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

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It takes a man to make a devil.

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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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