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
fear health men
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
fitness health thinking
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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.
christian light healthy
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
becomes blossom cannot influence man
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence
conqueror defeated himself man
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself
insane man proper sane
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
according heart man poor rich turning whether
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
hands head labor
The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands
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.
employed learn time walk
There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.
heaven loving mother slave
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
best call door god higher open sphere voice
Do the best you can where you are, and when that is accomplished, God will open a door for you, and a voice will call ""Come up hither into a higher sphere
good liar lie tells truths
Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.