HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

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That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

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A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

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Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

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Surely, of all things that are, snow is the most beautiful and the most feeble! Born of air-drops, less than the fallen dew, disorganized by a puff of warmth, driven everywhere by the least motion of the winds, each particle light and soft, and falling to the earth with such noiseless gentleness, that the wings of ten million times ten million makes no sound in the air, and the footfall of thrice as many makes no noise.

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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance.

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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

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One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

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One of the affecting features in a life of vice is the longing, wistful outlooks given by the wretches who struggle with unbridled passions, towards virtues which are no longer within their reach. Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees, and flowers, as they go quickly past; and all things that are desirable gleam upon them for a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swift-coming destruction.

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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 tomorrow.

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