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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Henry Ward Beecher
Soul, Democracy, Liberty
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.42

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Henry Ward Beecher
Pain, Heart, Arrows
Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

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

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

Henry Ward Beecher
Husband, Father, Home

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Ideas, Theology
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Fellow Man, Fellows
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

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

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

Henry Ward Beecher
Animal, Imagination, Temptation

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Business, War, Gambling

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Henry Ward Beecher
Future, Live In The Moment, Tomorrow

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Want, States
Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.27

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, Mind, Twenties

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher
Boredom, Dull, Grindstone
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Men, Order
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.389

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

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

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Henry Ward Beecher
Crush, Morning, Night
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.43

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Home, Grieving
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, Real, Men
Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.67

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, Men, Doe
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.67

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Heaven, May

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher
How To Love, Worship, Know How
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.19

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ideas, Suffering, Divine
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.191

Now comes the mystery.

Henry Ward Beecher
Grieving, Mystery, Last Words

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mom, Dad, Appreciate

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