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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes | Quotes said by Henry Ward Beecher

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #1

    ?Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.


  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #4

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #5

    A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #8

    Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #9

    All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #10

    Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #11

    Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #12

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #13

    Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #14

    Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #15

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #16

    Faith is spiritualized imagination.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #17

    Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #18

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #19

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #20

    Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #23

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #24

    Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #27

    If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #28

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #29

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

  • Henry Ward Beecher Quote #30

    It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

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