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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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He will see most without who has the best eyes within and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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