Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

-Henry Ward Beecher

art
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

-Henry Ward Beecher

art
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

-Henry Ward Beecher

art
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

-Henry Ward Beecher

best
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

-Henry Ward Beecher

best
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

best
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

-Henry Ward Beecher

business
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

-Henry Ward Beecher

death
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

-Henry Ward Beecher

education
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

-Henry Ward Beecher

faith
Faith is spiritualized imagination.

-Henry Ward Beecher

faith
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.

-Henry Ward Beecher

forgiveness
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

-Henry Ward Beecher

forgiveness
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

-Henry Ward Beecher

friendship
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

friendship
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

-Henry Ward Beecher

friendship
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
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

god
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.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
The dog is the god of frolic.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
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.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
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.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

-Henry Ward Beecher

god
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

-Henry Ward Beecher

good
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

-Henry Ward Beecher

good
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

good
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

good
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

-Henry Ward Beecher

good
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

-Henry Ward Beecher

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