Henry Ward Beecher
77 quotations
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Now comes the mystery.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
True obedience is true freedom.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.