Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 2

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
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Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward Beecher
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
Henry Ward Beecher
the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't
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
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Now comes the mystery! (last words)
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher