Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Written by 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 cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Written by 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!
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Now comes the mystery.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher

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