Henry Ward Beecher

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

-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

"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

"The dog is the god of frolic."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Theology is a science of mind applied to God."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-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

"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

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

-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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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."

-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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"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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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"Love is the river of life in the world."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"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."

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

-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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"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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"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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"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

-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

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

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

-Henry Ward Beecher

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

-Henry Ward Beecher