Frasi di Henry Ward Beecher (85 frasi, pagina 3)

As quoted in Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887) by J.T. Lloyd, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=MV5DAAAAYAAJ <br class="br">Other Sourced

“It is not painter or sculptor who is making himself most nobly immortal. It is he who is making true impressions upon the mind of man; frescoes for eternity, that will not shine out till the light of heaven reveals them; sculptures, not wrought in outward things, but in the inward nature and character of the soul.”

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Origine: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 22

“Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that, find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away — a faith for living, a faith for tying.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 107

“All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.”

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the new applications of the truth, Heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.”

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Notes from Plymouth Pulpit (1859)

“It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.”

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Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 599

“The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.”

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. ”

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“For four thousand years the strong had been rushing on in the road of privilege and power, seeking greatness. Christ stood in the path, and said, " Ye seek greatness. Ye are not even in the way to it. Ye are going up, but the way to greatness is down. Let him who would be great be the love-servant of all."”

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Greatness consists in the facility and power of going down, and not in the facility of going up.
Origine: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 26

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

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“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

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“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

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