Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest. Henry Ward Beecher government self ideas The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men. Henry Ward Beecher noble bible men There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease. Henry Ward Beecher government suffering heart The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. Henry Ward Beecher angel tears eye It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. Henry Ward Beecher exclusive arrogant greatness The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air. Henry Ward Beecher greatness air men As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. Henry Ward Beecher sea men thinking Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood. Henry Ward Beecher sacrifice ambition honor You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man. Henry Ward Beecher wish spring men There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings. Henry Ward Beecher dumb perfect men Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust. Henry Ward Beecher dust would-be christ Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground. Henry Ward Beecher christian men lying Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again. Henry Ward Beecher spots mark window Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. Henry Ward Beecher maintaining succeed people And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. Henry Ward Beecher may death hands May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. Henry Ward Beecher immortality satisfied may There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least. Henry Ward Beecher men heaven ideas We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. Henry Ward Beecher conditions virtue Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe. Henry Ward Beecher degrees evil men The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion. Henry Ward Beecher country people school
