Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

American - Clergyman | June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher

DeathEscapeMostEfficient

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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ThreeIntelligentWillSensesBooks

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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MenAliveStayBooks

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

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ManChristianPlaceWhereCannotHe

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

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KnowSecretHalfItself

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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PeopleDangerousIgnorantMost

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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ClimbMankindUpwardThoseExcept

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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GodManAmericanLibertyRealHim

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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SadWorldShadowsOnlyCastTender

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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DangerousIgnorantClasses

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

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