Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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• ‘I can forgive, but I cannot forget’, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive’.

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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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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.

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• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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• Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

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

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

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• You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

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

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• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.

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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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• To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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Henry Ward Beecher (120)

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

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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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