Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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• Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

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• Now comes the mystery.

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• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

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• Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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• Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

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• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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• Love is the river of life in the world.

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• Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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• Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

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• It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.

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• It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

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• No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

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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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