HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XV

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

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Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

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Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

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Love ... like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

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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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It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

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Poverty is never by the grace of God in the estimation of a New-Englander. It comes to him by post from the other direction.

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A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

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God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

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Man's faults lie like reptiles--like toads, like lizards, like serpents; and what if there is over them the evening sky, lit with glory, and all aglow? Are they less reptiles and toads because all is roseate around about them?

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

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Christians! It is your duty not only to be good, but to shine; and, of all the lights which you kindle on the face, Joy will reach farthest out to sea, where troubled mariners are seeking the shore.

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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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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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