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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A dull ax never loves grindstones.
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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