American clergyman (1813-1887)
No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Worry is rust upon the blade.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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