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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Liars, Lying
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Strong, Lying
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, White, Black

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Flower, Thinking
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.120

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

Henry Ward Beecher
Patience, Lying, Blow
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Men, Order
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.389

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Lying, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Men, Roots
Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.320, Gale Cengage Learning

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Needs, Blades
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Liars, Lying, Helping
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

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

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Wealth, Friction
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Henry Ward Beecher
Money, Lying, Men

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

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

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

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Needs, Handle
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.20

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