Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
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A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.