Henry Ward Beecher Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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A church debt is the devil's salary.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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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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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

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

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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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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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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

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

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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