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
war spring long
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
health dark men
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
success nature men
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
ocean men wind
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
strength strong lying
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
men sorrow sincere
Sorrow makes men sincere.
truth pushing mets
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
life good-morning 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.
men cunning-man half
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
school ideas truth-is
Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
self contemplation conceit
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
men government
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
men hunting fishing
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
morning kindness sadness
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.