Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life, Library, Luxury

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 Beecher

Love, Friendship, Truth

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mom, Mother, Heart

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Greatest, After

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, God, Made

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

All 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 Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Proud, Grateful, Thinks

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

Education, School, Church

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher

Government, Next, Worst

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness, Power, Art

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher

Perfect, Wrong, Speak

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 Beecher

Good, God, Today

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher

School, Nothing, Christian

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Friends, Keep, Faults

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good, Book, Company

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward Beecher

History, Heart, Memorable

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Successful, Study

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher

Christian, Cannot, Place

The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Power, True, State

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strong, Between, Won

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children, Next, Catch

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 24, 1813

Died: March 8, 1887

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