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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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
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Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.