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 dog is the god of frolic.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence
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No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands
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When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.
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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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Do the best you can where you are, and when that is accomplished, God will open a door for you, and a voice will call ""Come up hither into a higher sphere