Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

"It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement."
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"It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The dog is the god of frolic."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are."
Henry Ward Beecher
"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave."
Henry Ward Beecher
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how."
Henry Ward Beecher
"To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe."
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
"A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life."
Henry Ward Beecher
"No man is more cheated than the selfish man."
Henry Ward Beecher
"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher"
Henry Ward Beecher
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell."
Henry Ward Beecher
"the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't"
Henry Ward Beecher
"Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."
Henry Ward Beecher
"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."
Henry Ward Beecher
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."
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
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