Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

452. “The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

453. “Refinement is the lifting of one’s self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

454. “The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.”

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

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456. “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.”

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

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458. “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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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461. “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.”

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

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463. “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.”

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464. “There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.”

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465. “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.”

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

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468. “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.”

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469. “Experience is the mother of custom.”

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

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

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

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

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

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475. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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482. “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.”

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483. “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.”

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484. “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.”

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485. “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.”

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

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

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488. “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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489. “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.”

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

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

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493. “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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494. “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.”

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495. “The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.”

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

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497. “A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.”

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498. “We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.”

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499. “If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.”

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500. “If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.”

— Henry Ward Beecher