Henry Ward Beecher - Plymouth pulpit (1867)

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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Henry Ward Beecher
The apple-tree is tough as an Indian, patient as an ox, and fruitful as the Jewish Rachael.

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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

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A cow is the saint of the barn-yard. She could be fat if she would only be selfish. But she economizes beauty that she may be profuse in milk.

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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the new applications of the truth, Heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds that bear the chariot of the sun.

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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunder-storm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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