Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

452. “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

453. “The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

454. “This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.”

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455. “The strong are God’s natural protectors of the weak.”

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456. “A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.”

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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. “A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

460. “If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

462. “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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

464. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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471. “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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

473. “Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

474. “Experience is the mother of custom.”

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

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

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

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

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479. “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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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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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482. “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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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. “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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

485. “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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486. “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

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

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

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492. “Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.”

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493. “Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

494. “The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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.”

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

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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