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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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It takes a man to make a devil.
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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