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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Henry Ward Beecher
Blessing, Curse
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Henry Ward Beecher
Summer, Memories, Flower
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Men, Funeral
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Keeping Secrets, Half
Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.21

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher
Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus, Christianity, Form
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspiring, Angel, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Blessing, Ideas

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Henry Ward Beecher
Stopping, Laziness, Ruins
Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Riches, Milk
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Henry Ward Beecher
Hands, Soul, Spheres
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Funny, Book

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Joy, Should
Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Hunting, Fishing
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Henry Ward Beecher
Grief, Heart, Mountain
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher
Funny, War, Humor

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Henry Ward Beecher
Preaching The Gospel, Doe, Affair
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.228

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Night, Men, Weather
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Culture, Size
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Doors, Trying
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Common Sense, Genius
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sympathy, Stars, Moving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

Love is the river of life in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Rivers, World
"Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

Henry Ward Beecher
Kings, Men, Thinking
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

Love is more just than justice.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Love Is, Justice
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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