Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
love positive summer
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
life success men
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
men milk wealth
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
music understanding inspire
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
heart men greatest-wealth
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
truth work men
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
men thinking long
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
god
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
garden apples tree
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
simplicity elegance approach
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.