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
men rich-or-poor doe
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
vanity doe
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
life men doe
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
men doe flattery
A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
desire doe recognition
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
thinking mind doe
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
teaching doe true-knowledge
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
preaching-the-gospel doe affair
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
soul desire doe
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
heart heaven doe
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
doe morality enough
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
compact himself man sells value
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
next worst
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
good liar lie tells truths
Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.