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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.

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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All Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Business

“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good

“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nature

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Success

“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

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Music

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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!”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful

“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

“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

“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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