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
laughter oil medicine
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
love oil grace
God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
heart love-is oil
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
stars oil light
In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
drudgery work
Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.
easy grave
There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave
coming determines success
It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
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Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown
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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
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The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun