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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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.
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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.