3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
3 December 2020 Henry 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
3 December 2020 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.
