02UndatedIt is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
04UndatedWe never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
05UndatedIf a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
06UndatedThe unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
07UndatedPride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
08Undatedthe difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won'tHenry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
10UndatedNo man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
12UndatedA little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
13UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
15UndatedYou have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
16UndatedGod asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
17UndatedThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
20UndatedOur days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
21UndatedA Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
22UndatedThe cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
24UndatedDo not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.Henry Ward Beecher / quote ↗
