Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAdversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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 BEECHERIn the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAs warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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 BEECHERIt is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER