Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — 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
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is… — 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
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.” — 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
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It… — 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
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. — 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
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. — 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
