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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Sea, Shining

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Sunday, England
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.140

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Joy, Trouble

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Land, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Rain, Writing

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Sleep, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Henry Ward Beecher
Society, Public Opinion, Privacy
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Women, Hands
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.160

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Order, People

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Henry Ward Beecher
Writing, Men, Names

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Smile, Laughter

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Father, Dark

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Flower, Thinking
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.120

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Stones, Prison

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.56

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Sorrow, Vines
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

Henry Ward Beecher
Voice, Evil, Callous

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

Henry Ward Beecher
Blood, Religion, Pulse
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty, Three, Firsts
Henry Ward Beecher (1971). “American rebellion: report of the speeches of Henry Ward Beecher”, Ayer Co Pub

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dust, Would Be, Christ
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.163

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Biblical, Spiders
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Use, Obstinacy
Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Smile, Laughter
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Success, Congratulations
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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