Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door."
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"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
"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
"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... 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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God."
Henry Ward Beecher
"There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Faith is spiritualized imagination."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A church debt is the devil's salary."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
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