Dies Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

13 Dies quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher’s musings on each day’s weight carry a gentle moral urgency. Though modest in number, these 13 quotes offer a clear window into his 19th‑century sensibility about living and ending.

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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

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Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but…

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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to…

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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put…

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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as…

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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the…

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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression…

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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but…

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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

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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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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

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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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