Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
