Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker
Lived from: 1813 - 1887
Category: Theologians and clergy Country: 
United States
Born: 24 june 1813 Died: 8 march 1887
Quotes 21 till 40 of 130.
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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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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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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