Henry Ward Beecher - Plymouth pulpit (1867)

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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

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Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance.

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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

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Nothing is so sensitive as love—and the greater, the more sensitive. It cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed from out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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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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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

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