No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.


Henry Ward Beecher

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HENRY WARD BEECHER
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
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
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
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 a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
HENRY WARD BEECHER