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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Henry Ward Beecher
White, Charity, May

As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

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Men, Trying, May

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

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

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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Mind, Mirth, Veneration
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

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Soul, Rallying, Signals
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher
Disappointment, Frost, Fertile
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

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

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Henry Ward Beecher
Suffering, Wells
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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Sympathy, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Popular Lectures on Preaching”, p.188

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hard Work, Dedication, Victory

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love Is, Reason
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.117

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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Blessing, Soul, Reason
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

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Son, Thinking, Temptation
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reality, Men, Silence
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.129

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

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Men, Agriculture, Names

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty, Rugged, Sensibility
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

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Men, Thinking, Hair
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

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Flower, Feelings, Relaxation
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.270

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

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

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Home, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

Religion is using everything for God.

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Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.114

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Character, True Life
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reading, Company, Immorality
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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