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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Men, Way
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

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

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Giving, Sorrow, Flavor

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom, Philosophy, War
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Men, Law
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

Love is the world's river of life

Henry Ward Beecher
Love Is, Rivers, World

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Running, Men

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Henry Ward Beecher
Time, Two, Age
Henry Ward Beecher, William Cobbett (1830). “Advice to Young Men”

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.410

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Henry Ward Beecher
Others Happiness, Selfishness, Expenses
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, May, Nightmare
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.87

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Henry Ward Beecher
Jobs, Men, Done

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Henry Ward Beecher
Food, Apples, Pie
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strong, Men, Shackles
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Henry Ward Beecher
Tolerance, Good Humor, All Things

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Feelings, Action
"Life Thoughts".

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Flower, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Henry Ward Beecher
Time, War, Men

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Men, Rich
Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.16

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher
Memorable, Heart, History

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher
People, Common, Newspapers
Henry Ward Beecher (1879). “Twelve Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects”

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Teaching, Men

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Forever, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Fragments
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Thinking, States

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