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“A church debt is the devil's salary.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Love is the river of life in the world.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“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.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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