Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Heaven, Every

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Like, Person

• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Spiritualized, Faith, Imagination

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

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  Tags in Anxiety, Faith

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Next, Anarchy, World

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Art

• Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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• 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

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  Tags in Acceptance

• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Acceptance

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  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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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Common Sense, Philosophy

• 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

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Sanity, Insanity

• 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

  Topics in Friendship, Truth

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Note, Ought, Cannot, Up, Two, Canadians, Cancelled, Against, Only, Saying, Torn, Never, Shown, Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Way, Will, Burned, Canada

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Successful, Morality, Stands, Young, Would, Every, Foundation, Well, Man, Remember

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Art, Nature, Soul

  Tags in Dips, Paints, Into, His, Pictures, Own, Every, Artist, Brush

• It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Worry

• The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Tags in Good

Henry Ward Beecher (120)

Birth:	24th June, 1813
Death:	8th March, 1887
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman, Social Reformer

About

Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. He was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery. He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1847, he became the first pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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