Henry Ward Beecher Quotations

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Humor]

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Luck]

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Music]

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [People]

The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Mothers]

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Self-Control]

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Books]

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Books]

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Books]

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Prayer]

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Prayer]

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Government]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Laughter]

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Speeches]

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Money] [Happiness]

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Money]

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Money]

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Adversity]

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Adversity]

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
	- Henry Ward Beecher	more quotations on [Art]

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