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Quotes from beecher henry ward iv

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
~ beecher henry ward iv
God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.
~ beecher henry ward iv
When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
~ beecher henry ward iv
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
~ beecher henry ward iv
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
~ beecher henry ward iv
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
~ beecher henry ward iv
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.
~ beecher henry ward iv
It is the duty of Christians to make religion lovely; he who makes religion unlovely is more an infidel than if he simply denied the doctrines of Christianity. He is a worm at the core, and not a worm on the leaf.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
~ beecher henry ward iv
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
~ beecher henry ward iv
The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
~ beecher henry ward iv