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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Henry Ward Beecher
Long, Joy, Bird
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Joy, Should
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”

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, War, Joy
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.17

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Medicine, Joy
Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Joy, Trouble

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

Henry Ward Beecher
Grief, Joy, Immortality
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude, Joy, Affliction

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

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

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Henry Ward Beecher
Long, Joy, Fly Away
"Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by one of his congregation". Book by Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1858.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher
Pain, Light, Joy

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