The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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 BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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 BEECHERSee to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDownright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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