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Quotes from beecher henry ward v

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
~ beecher henry ward v
A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.
~ beecher henry ward v
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.
~ beecher henry ward v
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
~ beecher henry ward v
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
~ beecher henry ward v
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.
~ beecher henry ward v
God's hand, like a sign-board, is pointing toward democracy, and saying to the nations of the earth, "This is the way: walk ye in it."
~ beecher henry ward v
Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.
~ beecher henry ward v
Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.
~ beecher henry ward v
The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.
~ beecher henry ward v
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
~ beecher henry ward v
There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.
~ beecher henry ward v
Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
~ beecher henry ward v
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
~ beecher henry ward v
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
~ beecher henry ward v
Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.
~ beecher henry ward v
God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.
~ beecher henry ward v
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
~ beecher henry ward v
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
~ beecher henry ward v