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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sleep, Night, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity, World, Easy

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Blessed, Character
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.4

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hate, Men, Thinking
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.248

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Henry Ward Beecher
Promise, Ends
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Henry Ward Beecher
Advice, Blunt, Admonition

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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

Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Home, Parent
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Morning, Kindness
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Henry Ward Beecher
Devil, World
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.82

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Valentines Day, Crush

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Men, Insanity
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Grace, Helping
Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Henry Ward Beecher
Change, Work, People
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Blessed, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.351

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Pride, Idols
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hate, Long, Parent
Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship, Patience, Truth
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Father

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher
School, Ideas, Truth Is
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Good Morning, Time
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”

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