black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Aspiration Name Regret
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government World Worst
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Hard Intolerance
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beautiful Book Furniture Home
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Man Page Start
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Love Myself Worship
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Elegant Simplicity True
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes