Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

252. “Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

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253. “No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”

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254. “Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.”

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255. “The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.”

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256. “Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.”

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257. “The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”

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258. “Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.”

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259. “Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.”

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260. “Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?”

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261. “The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.”

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262. “Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.”

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263. “Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.”

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264. “The truest self-respect is not to think of self.”

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265. “Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.”

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266. “Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God’s because He loves.”

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267. “Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.”

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268. “Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.”

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269. “It is part and parcel of every man’s life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.”

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270. “Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.”

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271. “We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.”

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272. “A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”

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273. “Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.”

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274. “The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.”

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275. “Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.”

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276. “O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.”

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277. “No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.”

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278. “A door that seems to stand open must be of a man’s size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.”

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279. “Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long, – it is exceedingly short.”

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280. “Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!”

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281. “Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.”

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282. “Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.”

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283. “Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

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284. “When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead, – dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.”

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285. “Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.”

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286. “Let every man come to God in his own way.”

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287. “The world is God’s workshop for making men in.”

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288. “Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.”

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289. “That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.”

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290. “Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.”

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291. “There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.”

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292. “Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.”

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293. “God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”

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294. “Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.”

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295. “God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul’s signal for rallying.”

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296. “Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.”

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297. “God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.”

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298. “The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.”

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299. “Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don’t whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.”

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300. “Prayer covers the whole of man’s life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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