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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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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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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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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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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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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.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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