Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.
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.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.