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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.

“Love is the river of life in the world.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

All Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

“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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Art

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Success

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Death

“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Society

“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

Great

“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

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Strength

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Success

“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

“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Best

“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God