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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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.