You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
