| 93 Famous Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
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“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
Affliction Quotes |
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“How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.”
Appearance Quotes |
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“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
Children Quotes |
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“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
Clothes Quotes |
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“A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.”
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“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
Compassion Quotes |
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“There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week”
Confession Quotes |
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“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
Disappointment Quotes |
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“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”
Doctrine Quotes |
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“Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice”
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“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
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“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
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“Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge”
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“"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."”
Libraries Quotes |
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“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
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“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into”
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“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”
Sanity Quotes |
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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.”
Progress Quotes Source: Life Thoughts
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“Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them
as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and
feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Star Papers--Oxford--Bodleian Library
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“As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own
sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love
them.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Star Papers--A Discourse of Flowers
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“Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some
are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and
upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Star Papers--A Discourse of Flowers
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“Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the
heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in
their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy,
and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are
filled with earthy and material things.”
Character Quotes Source: Life Thoughts
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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.”
Character Quotes Source: Life Thoughts
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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