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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher
Iron, Giving, Justice

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

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Jesus, Men, Saving
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.236

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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

We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Dream, Echoes
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Men, Needs
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

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People, Evil, Giving

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

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Nature, Men, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

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Soul, Desire, Doe
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, Believe, Thinking
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

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God, Lonely, Art

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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Forgiveness, World, Hedgehogs
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

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

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Men, Symbolism
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Honesty, Men, Down And

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Growing Up, Book
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Longing, Moments

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, People, Mind

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

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Hens, Virtue, Great Men

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

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Tree, Her Beauty, England
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Henry Ward Beecher
Plato, Greatness, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Heaven, Path

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religious, Kindness, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Pride, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Henry Ward Beecher
Knowledge, Body, Hungry
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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