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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker

Lived from: 1813 - 1887

Category: Theologians and clergy Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 june 1813 Died: 8 march 1887

  • Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
  • Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
  • Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
  • See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
  • Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
  • In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
  • 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.
  • You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
  • Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
  • The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
  • Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
  • There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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  • A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
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  • Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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  • Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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  • Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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  • Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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  • The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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  • The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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  • There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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What are the most famous quotes from Henry Ward Beecher?

The two most famous quotes from Henry Ward Beecher are:

  • "A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."
  • "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

When did Henry Ward Beecher live?

Henry Ward Beecher was born in 1813 and died in the year 1887.