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 121 till 130 of 130.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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 in the morning.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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