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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.

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Music

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Society

“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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

“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 steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mom

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Marriage

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sad

“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

“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men