HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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There is an army of waiters in this world.

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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

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The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.

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The Divine Being brings comfort and consolation to men. He is a God for men that are weak, and want to be strong; for men that are impure, and want to be pure; for men that are unjust, and want to be just; for men that are unloving, and want to be loving; for men that aspire to all the greatness and glory of which the soul is capable.

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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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Poverty is very good in poems ... in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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It makes a great deal of difference what sort of God men believe in.

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Faith is the realization of an invisible truth.

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Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

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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.

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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

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There are many Christians who like, about once in twelve months, to have a good revival in their hearts. They think that, like the year, they can make up for freezing and snowing all winter by a period of intense heat in the summer. The remedy for such is not to chill the revivals, but to shorten the intervals between them, and to endeavor to make their life equatorial and tropical all the year round.

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Unless you have singing in the family and singing in the house, singing everywhere, until it becomes a habit, you never can have congregational singing; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of rock, one drop here and another there; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof.

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