HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

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There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

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A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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

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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

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Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

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Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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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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Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

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

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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.

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