72 quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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

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“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Love is the river of life in the world.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“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

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“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Faith is spiritualized imagination.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Well married, a person has wings; poorly married, shackles.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“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

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