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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built and that is all anything is good for.
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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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Living is death dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens on this side orphans, on that children.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A coat that is not used, the moths eat and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him and they have poor food at that.
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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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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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