Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
Henry Ward Beecher
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a complex tool. And he that inve... HENRY WARD BEECHER How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and t... HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and th... HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. HENRY WARD BEECHER Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. 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