Beecher Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Beecher

Beecher Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Beecher quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin. — Henry Ward Beecher

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. — Henry Ward Beecher

Discover what you are. — Henry Ward Beecher

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it. — Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. — Henry Ward Beecher

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. — Henry Ward Beecher

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. — Henry Ward Beecher

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Truthfulness is godliness. — Henry Ward Beecher

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It takes a man to make a devil. — Henry Ward Beecher

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have. — Henry Ward Beecher

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man that does not love praise is not a full man. — Henry Ward Beecher

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. — Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. — Henry Ward Beecher

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. — Henry Ward Beecher

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain. — Henry Ward Beecher

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is using everything for God. — Henry Ward Beecher

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. — Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is not the end of life: character is. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. — Henry Ward Beecher

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns. — Henry Ward Beecher

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man. — Henry Ward Beecher

The world is God's workshop for making men in. — Henry Ward Beecher

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. — Henry Ward Beecher

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind. — Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. — Henry Ward Beecher

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. — Henry Ward Beecher

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger! — Henry Ward Beecher

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces. — Henry Ward Beecher

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. — Henry Ward Beecher

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem. — Henry Ward Beecher

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. — Henry Ward Beecher

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. — Henry Ward Beecher

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. — Henry Ward Beecher

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul. — Henry Ward Beecher

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory. — Henry Ward Beecher

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer. — Henry Ward Beecher

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. — Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism. — Henry Ward Beecher

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is an army of waiters in this world. — Henry Ward Beecher

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. — Henry Ward Beecher

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be. — Henry Ward Beecher

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance. — Henry Ward Beecher

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

God's glory is His goodness. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry. — Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. — Henry Ward Beecher

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. — Henry Ward Beecher

Well married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled. — Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering is part of the divine idea. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Each book has a secret history of ways and means. — Henry Ward Beecher

In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. — Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. — Henry Ward Beecher

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him. — Henry Ward Beecher

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher

All men are free and equal, in the grave, — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. — Henry Ward Beecher

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent. — Henry Ward Beecher

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. — Henry Ward Beecher

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. — Henry Ward Beecher

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. — Henry Ward Beecher

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand. — Henry Ward Beecher