Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 2

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Failure

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• If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Done, Want, Christ

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• In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Blessed, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.4

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• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
  is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
  and bearing one another's burdens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Ratios, Burden

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Broken Heart, War, Practice

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Men, Roots

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Arrogant, Exclusive

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.267

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• There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mind, Might, Humans

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.150

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, War, Obedience

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• A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Majority, Population

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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• Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Sweet, Worry

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Years

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• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Needs, Pilots

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

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• Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Heart, Pleasure

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Teammate

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Errands, Proof, Should

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

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• It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Struggle, Long, Wish

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