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
atmosphere storm
Storms purify the atmosphere.
influence
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
men shrimp rats
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
past age results
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
teacher book party
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
real coffee home
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!
men law giving
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
liberty firsts three
The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.
animal imagination temptation
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
men evil may
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
class two action
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
world purpose very-good
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
hypocrisy saint meetings
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
humanity church needs
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.