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Love Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

87 Love quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Love is described as the oil that lights the lamp of the heart, giving warmth and guidance. The quotes say you need love’s sympathy to truly understand other people’s feelings. They also note that love can cover a conscience, but it should not be taken for granted when it isn’t returned.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

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Love is the river of life in this world.

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Never excuse yourself.

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The tree is but a huge boquet.

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Men can make an idol of the Bible.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

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A man that does not love praise is not a full man.

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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as…

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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily…

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the…

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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows…

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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

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When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

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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…

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the…

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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of…

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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can…

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Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it…

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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature…

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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and…

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Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a…

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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under…

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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to…

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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,…

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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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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will…

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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and…

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Love is the river of life in the world.

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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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