To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Love is the river of life in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER






