Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn 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 BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhat I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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