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 BEECHERIf 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 BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInvolved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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