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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

Henry Ward Beecher
Summer, Flower, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

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Nature, Enjoyment, Manly
Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

Henry Ward Beecher
Roots, Tree, Tribes
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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Inspirational, War, Names

The dog is the god of frolic.

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Dog, War, Animal

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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Faith, Imagination
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.50

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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Years, Law, Done
Life Thoughts (1858)

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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Business, Successful, Motherhood

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

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Memories, Home, House
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.47

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

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Emotional, Long, Feelings
Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

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Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

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Hero, Tree, Saint
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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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Community, States, Newspapers
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Possibility, Babe
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

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Beautiful, Autumn, Color

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Missing You, Heartbreak
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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Happiness, War, Joy
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.17

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, War, Get Well Soon
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

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Beauty, Mother, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, War, Character
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Henry Ward Beecher
Light, Soul, Feelings
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Fear, Atheism

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

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Love, Heart, Eye
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Love Is, Light
Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Arms, I Can
"Royal Truths".

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