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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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