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The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

Henry Ward Beecher
Cheer, Children, Book
"Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion, Fire, Feet

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Henry Ward Beecher
Passion, Yield, Evil
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Henry Ward Beecher
Dull, Plagiarism, Sermons

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dull, May, Praying
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, War, Work

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Men, Miracle
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

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

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Resurrection, Christ

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Henry Ward Beecher
Records, May, Revival
Henry Ward Beecher (1874). “Lectures on Preaching”, p.235

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Men, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

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Spring, Tree, Cows
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.202

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Men, Two
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

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

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Henry Ward Beecher
Teaching, Doe, True Knowledge

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Individual, Fellows
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

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

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Idols
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.301

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dream, Art, Men

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

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

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Business, Ordinary
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

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

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Writing, Names
Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Henry Ward Beecher
Self, Religion, Denial
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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