HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XVI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

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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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Righteousness is as hereditary as vice, and godly men transmit moral qualities to their children, and to their children's children.

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Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral.

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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

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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, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

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A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

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The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

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

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Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

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The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

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

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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

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

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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

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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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