American clergyman (1813-1887)
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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There is an army of waiters in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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