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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Longing, Good Company
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, War, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, War, Never Forget

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Glory, Newspapers
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.283

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Men, Rich Or Poor

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Community, Rich, Poor
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.386

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher
Party, Book, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religious, Passion, Ignorance
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Criticism, Benefits
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.155

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Black, Poverty
Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Henry Ward Beecher
Running, Dog, Fall
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Soul, Looks
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Henry Ward Beecher
Running, World, Providence
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

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

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Henry Ward Beecher
Blood, Body, Newspapers
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Henry Ward Beecher
Law, Long, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.42

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, World, Fruit
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.141

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship, Heart, Bells
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Men, Firsts

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Gossip, Devil
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Henry Ward Beecher
Faith, Recognition, Senses
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.613

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

Henry Ward Beecher
Wise, Mistake, Men
"Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Biographies, Aspect

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Secret, Needed
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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