HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

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Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies.

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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

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We go to the grave of a friend, saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."

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We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

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Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

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It makes a great deal of difference what sort of God men believe in.

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It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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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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All true conflict should aim at peace.

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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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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

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Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows strong.

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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

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