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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Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
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He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
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Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.
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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
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If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.