Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 2

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Happiness is not the end of life character is.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.