black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Easy Grave Hard Place World
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

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Nature Saint Sin
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deck Strong Test Weakness
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blunt Government Rule
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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

Blossom Example Influence Person
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 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
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear Push Truth Yourself
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes