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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
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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