The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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 BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSee to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAll men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER