Henry Ward Beecher - Plymouth pulpit (1867)

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

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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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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race, with variations multitudinous.

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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked), plain, good, useful, but not adorable.

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True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

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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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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

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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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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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A book is a garden; a book is an orchard; a book is a storehouse; a book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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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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Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing that makes more cowardly and feeble men than public opinion.

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