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Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887] American

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Clergyman

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.		101
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.	Thankful	102
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.	Love, Parenting	103
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.	Music, Romantic	104
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.	Mom	105
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.		106
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.	Thanksgiving	107
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.	Love, Religion	108
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.	God, Nature	109
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.	Morning	110
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.	Art, Nature	111
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.	Leadership	112
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!	Thankful	113
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.		114
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.	Art, Happiness, Power	115
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.	Success	116
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.	Thankful	117
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.	Work	118
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.	Experience	119
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.		120
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.	Success	121
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.	Good, Knowledge, Money, Nature, Wisdom	122
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.	Humor	123
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.	Government	124
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.	Inspirational, Men	125
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.	Marriage	126
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.	Success	201
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.		202
Love is the river of life in the world.		203
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.		204
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.		205
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.	Inspirational	206
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.	Forgiveness	207
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.		208
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.		209
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.	Failure	210
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.	Religion	211
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.		212
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.	Sad	213
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.	Wisdom	214
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.	Mother's Day	215
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.	Friendship	216
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.	Imagination	217
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.		218
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.		219
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.	Nature	220
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.	Friendship, Truth	221
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.		222
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.	Society	223
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.		224
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.	Medical	225
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.	Great, Strength	226
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.		301
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.	Faith	302
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.	Smile	303
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.		304
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.		305
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.		306
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.		307
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.		308
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.		309
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.		310
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.		311
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.		312
Faith is spiritualized imagination.	Faith, Imagination	313
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.		314
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.	Business	315
A church debt is the devil's salary.		316
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.		317
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.	Education	318
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.		319
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.	Power	320
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.		321
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.	Wisdom	322
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.		323
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.	Anger	324
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.	Forgiveness	325
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.		326
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.		401
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.	Knowledge, Respect	402
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.		403
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.	Friendship	404
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.		405
The dog is the god of frolic.	Pet	406
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.		407
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.		408
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.		409
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.		410
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.		411
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?		412
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.		413
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.	Future	414
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.		415
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.		416
Now comes the mystery.		417
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.		418
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.		419
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.	Strength	420
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.		421
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.		422
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.		423
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.		424
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.		425
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.		426
Suffering is part of the divine idea.		501
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.		502
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.		503
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.		504
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.		505
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.		506
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.		507
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.		508
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.		509
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.		510
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.		511
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.		512
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.		513

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