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Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Henry Ward Beecher
Soul, Midnight, Way
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Surface, Organs
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Sight, May
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Fall, Light

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher
Government, Hands, Law
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Inspiration, Men
"Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Wealth, Friction
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude, Heart, Eye
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Self, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.258

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Henry Ward Beecher
People, Gold, Treasure
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Art, Years
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Henry Ward Beecher
Money, Lying, Men

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Blessed, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

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

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Wind, Would Be
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Temptation, Coats
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Henry Ward Beecher
Civilization, Leisure
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Henry Ward Beecher
Temptation, Enemy, Castles
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Mean, Secret
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty, Wave, Providence
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Henry Ward Beecher
Worship, Argument
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher
Music, Dust, Piano
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.85

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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

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