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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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideas of the young are formed and adopted is more important still.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles
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The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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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.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.