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Henry Ward Beecher

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Faith is spiritualized imagination.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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A church debt is the devil's salary.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#debt #devil #salary

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#hands #heaven #hold #take #which

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#poor #rich

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#live #man #milk #pray #well

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#friction #kills #machinery #people #revolution

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Did you know about Henry Ward Beecher?

His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal. "
Muscular and long-haired the preacher was close to a series of attractive young women but his wife Eunice the mother of his 10 children was "unloved. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million.

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24 1813 – March 8 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman social reformer abolitionist and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

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