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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.

“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

All Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sad

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Death

“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

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving

“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Knowledge

“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Work

“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“The dog is the god of frolic.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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