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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Fear is a kind of bell ... it is the soul's signal for rallying.
fear health men
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
fear men thinking
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
fear men evil
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
life fear atheism
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
fear moving men
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
becomes blossom cannot influence man
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence
conqueror defeated himself man
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself
insane man proper sane
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
compact himself man sells value
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.