Heart Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this…

— Henry Ward Beecher

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is…

— Henry Ward Beecher