black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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

Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Easy Hill Top View
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

Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Man Paint Portrait
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beginning End Promise
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Night Plant Sleep
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes