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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. Not alone when they are in their

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. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Ice, Sky
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Slave, Masters

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

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Education, School, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.114

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Science, Genius

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Education, School
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Blood, Skins, Next

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

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

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship, Laughing, May

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Vortex, Prosperity
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.60

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

Henry Ward Beecher
Health, Dark, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.37

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Henry Ward Beecher
Faith, Men, Mind
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.136

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Men, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.117

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

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

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Boys, People
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.77

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Bribery, Has Beens
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

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

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

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

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Easy, Break
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.210

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ambition, Men, Noble Man
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

Henry Ward Beecher
Horse, Jingles, Bells
Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.97

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Taken, Woven
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

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

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Want, Public Speaking
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.229

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Doe, Flattery
"Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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