Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Positive, Summer

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296

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• A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

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  Strong, Rocks, Weather

  "Royal Truths".

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• The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

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  Men, Doe, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.157

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

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  War, Adversity, Religion

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• No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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  Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

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

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  Motivational, Faith, Future

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• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Distance

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

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

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  Men, Cunning Man, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.52

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• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

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  Wise, Sorry, Failure

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• 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.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

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  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

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  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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  Inspiring, Disappointment, Failure

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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  Funny, Christian, Education

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.140

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• Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

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  Wise, Fall, Looks

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

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  Motivational, Success, Giving Up

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.19

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• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

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  Mother, Children, Years

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• Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

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  Errands, Proof, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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  Clouds, Heaven, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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