Henry Ward Beecher on cage
Henry Ward Beecher170 quotes“You 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.”
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher True obedience is true freedom.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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Youre crowding me. I need room…. What i needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again i was proving i couldnt be trusted in patchs presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet i wasnt.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
Dennis RodmanDennis Rodman Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne