HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VI

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

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

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Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

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God designed men to grow as trees grow in open pastures, full-boughed all around; but men in society grow like trees in forests, tall and spindling, the lower ones overshadowed by the higher, with only a little branching, and that at the top. They borrow of each other the power to stand; and if the forest be cleared, and one be left alone, the first wind which comes uproots it.

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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

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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 it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

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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 minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

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Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

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The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

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Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

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The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

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