Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

452. “Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

453. “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

454. “Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!”

— Henry Ward Beecher

455. “God’s men are better than the devil’s men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.”

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456. “His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

457. “We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.”

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458. “In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

459. “Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.”

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460. “Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.”

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461. “God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

462. “Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

463. “One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

464. “There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

465. “Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

466. “The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

467. “There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

468. “When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

469. “Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.”

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470. “Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.”

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471. “He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

472. “Experience is the mother of custom.”

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473. “Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.”

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474. “The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

475. “Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

476. “Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

477. “People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

478. “In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

479. “Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.”

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480. “When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.”

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481. “To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”

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482. “Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.”

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483. “Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.”

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484. “Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.”

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485. “Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

486. “Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

487. “When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

488. “Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!”

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489. “The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”

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490. “In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.”

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491. “Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

492. “Each book has a secret history of ways and means.”

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493. “Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.”

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494. “There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.”

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495. “Though cares and sorrows e’er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

496. “Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.”

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497. “A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

498. “The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

499. “Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.”

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500. “Tuhan tidak pernah bertanya kepada seseorang apakah dia akan menerima hidupnya. Ini bukan pilihan. Anda harus menerimanya. Satu-satunya yang bisa dipilih adalah bagaimana menjalaninya.”

— Henry Ward Beecher