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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was an American clergyman, social reformer, and speaker known for his powerful oratory on abolition, women's suffrage, and temperance. One of the most influential public figures of the 19th century, Beecher had a gift for expressing moral and spiritual ideas in vivid, everyday language.

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“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Marriage

All Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good

“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nature

“Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Strength

“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Smile

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Power

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mothersday

“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good

“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

History

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good

“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Best

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Morning

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Success

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mom

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship

“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Best

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Faith

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Humor