HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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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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Let every man come to God in his own way.

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A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

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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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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

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Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

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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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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.

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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

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