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Sorrow makes men sincere.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Henry Ward Beecher
Grief, Men, Sorrow
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher
Writing, Ideas, Peg
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

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Life, Men, Ordinary

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

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Believe, Men, Reflection
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

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Inspirational, Inspiring, Success
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy, Saint, Meetings
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.350

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Henry Ward Beecher
House, Tree, Towns
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

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Summer, Fall, Autumn
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

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Summer, Anger, Men

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Men, Years

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Henry Ward Beecher
Change, Art, Philosophy
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”

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Men, Roots

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Needs, Pilots
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Attitude, Book
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Errors, Dangerous

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Running, Rain, Flower

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Doubt, Good Work

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

Henry Ward Beecher
Veterans Day, Mean, Men
"Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sweet, Coffee, Offering
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.60

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Work, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Cheating, Selfish, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

Henry Ward Beecher
Errands, Proof, Should
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Literature, Eternity

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dog, Horse, Animal

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