Quotes by Beecher, Henry Ward

"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on selfishness
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"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on success   

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

Beecher, Henry Ward on success   

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

Beecher, Henry Ward on success
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"Suffering is part of the divine idea."

Beecher, Henry Ward on suffering   

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow."

Beecher, Henry Ward on character
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

Beecher, Henry Ward on charity
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"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on temperament   

"Theology is a science of mind applied to God."

Beecher, Henry Ward on theology   

"Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged."

Beecher, Henry Ward on theology   

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind."

Beecher, Henry Ward on tools   

"When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear."

Beecher, Henry Ward on trouble   

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

Beecher, Henry Ward on victory
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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on words
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"Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!"

Beecher, Henry Ward on work   

"In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot."

Beecher, Henry Ward on work   

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

Beecher, Henry Ward on worry   

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."

Beecher, Henry Ward on zest
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on adversity
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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

Beecher, Henry Ward on adversity   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on christians and christianity   

"The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward on christians and christianity   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on churches   

"The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes."

Beecher, Henry Ward on class   

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

Beecher, Henry Ward on common sense   

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Beecher, Henry Ward on conservatives   

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Beecher, Henry Ward on criticism   

"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all."

Beecher, Henry Ward on culture   

"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."

Beecher, Henry Ward on cynics and cynicism
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"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."

Beecher, Henry Ward on death   

"Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;"

Beecher, Henry Ward on death
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