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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
Education is only like good culture,
it changes the size, but not the sort. — Henry Ward Beecher
it changes the size, but not the sort. — 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
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— 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
God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Truthfulness is godliness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
— 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
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
— 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
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
— 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
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
— 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
Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Music cleanses the understanding;
inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were left to itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were left to itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
The world is God's workshop for making men in.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
— Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
— 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
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
— 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
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
— 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
Love is the river of life in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
— 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
All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
— 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
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
— 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
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
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— 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
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
— Henry Ward Beecher