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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Henry Ward Beecher
Army, Ideas, Defeated
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.179

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Broken, Frost
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.215

It takes a man to make a devil.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Devil
"Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Henry Ward Beecher
Army, Color, Unseen
"Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

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

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

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

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Men, Haste
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.53

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Supervisors, Employers
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.83

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

Henry Ward Beecher
Style, Mind, Ornaments

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Punishment, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.131

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Kindness, Mean
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Children, Dying
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Discipline, Defeated

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
Trust, Mother, Children

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Henry Ward Beecher
Running, Men, Light

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Needs, Christ, Intolerance

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

Henry Ward Beecher
Titles, Century, Nineteenth Century

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Henry Ward Beecher
Spiritual, Men, Suffering
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.233

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Henry Ward Beecher
Writing, Thinking, Creating
Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.228

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Henry Ward Beecher
Doors, Pity
Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “Norwood, Or, Village Life in New England”, p.277

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

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

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

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

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher
Freedom, Bird, Half
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.35

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sympathy, Simple, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Jesus, Fall
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.202

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