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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

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

“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

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Success

“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

“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

“The dog is the god of frolic.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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

“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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Best

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

God

“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

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Faith

“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