Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
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There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.
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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 a mother
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When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine
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Love, like a lamp, needs to be fed out of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.
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. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.
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Do the best you can where you are, and when that is accomplished, God will open a door for you, and a voice will call ""Come up hither into a higher sphere
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Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.