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Life Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

94 Life quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher treats life as a continuation of humanity’s old patterns, urging pure thoughts and actions to shape each hour. He downplays wit as a decorative bell and stresses that character, not fleeting happiness, is the true goal. He also calls libraries a necessary part of living.

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Love is the river of life in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

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Love is the wine of existence.

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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be…

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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the…

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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man…

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Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which…

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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men,…

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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of…

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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…

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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be…

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Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

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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.…

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If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it…

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We…

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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may…

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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of…

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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all…

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured…

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It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all…

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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues…

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Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,…

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Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,…

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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

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Love is the world's river of life

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“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is…

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“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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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…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain…

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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it…

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