Doe Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

— Henry Ward Beecher

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man that does not love praise is not a full man.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into…

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

— Henry Ward Beecher