Henry Ward Beecher
Quotations
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“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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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.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“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
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“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Love is the river of life in the world.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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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.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Faith is spiritualized imagination.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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