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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Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
faith men mind
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.