How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.


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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisib...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so fa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could no...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER