Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

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• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

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• All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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• A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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• A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

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• A church debt is the devil’s salary.

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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

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• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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• A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

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• The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

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• The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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• Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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Henry Ward Beecher (120)

Birth:	24th June, 1813
Death:	8th March, 1887
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman, Social Reformer

About

Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. He was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery. He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1847, he became the first pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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