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
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it… — 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
