3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
3 December 2020 Henry 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.
