Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
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 -
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER