American clergyman (1813-1887)
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Let every man come to God in his own way.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
It takes a man to make a devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit