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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Henry Ward Beecher
Respect, Conceited, Men
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Henry Ward Beecher
Fighting, Victory, Results
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.84

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Mean, Views
Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

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

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Live Life
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Land, Dear Ones
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Men, Self
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.15

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

Henry Ward Beecher
Law, Judging, Earth
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Happiness, Spring

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Animal, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Ambition, Men

Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

Henry Ward Beecher
Drinking, Breathing, Skills
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Night, Love Is, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

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

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Power, Men, Expression

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Henry Ward Beecher
Light, Heaven, May
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 273, 1895.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

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

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strong, Business, World
Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.422

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Henry Ward Beecher
Horny, Toil, Tools

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Henry Ward Beecher
Pain, War, Poison

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Men, Giving

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Tree, Liberty, Fruit
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.60

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

Henry Ward Beecher
Patience, Lying, Blow
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed, Men, Yellow

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Children, Humorous

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