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Henry Ward Beecher - From the Books category:
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Disappointment category:
One's best success comes after one's greatest disappointments. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Enthusiasm category:
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Grace category:
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Gratitude category:
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessing. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Humility category:
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Ideas category:
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Nature category:
Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Originality category:
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Perseverance category:
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Pets category:
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Prosperity category:
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Sleep category:
We sleep, but the loom of life never sleeps and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Standards category:
Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Words category:
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Worry category:
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Henry Ward Beecher - From the Writing category:
-on receiving a note containing the single word: 'Fool!'...
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. (Henry Ward Beecher)
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