Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
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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
"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."
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
"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
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
"None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied man."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied the man."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance."
Henry Ward Beecher
"There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child."
Henry Ward Beecher
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