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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Success, Men
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher
Intelligent, People, Ignorant
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Heart, Suggestions
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

Love is the wine of existence.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Wine, Love Is
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

Discover what you are.

Henry Ward Beecher

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Henry Ward Beecher
Belief, Sincere

Truthfulness is godliness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truthfulness, Godliness

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Henry Ward Beecher
Funny, Oil, Anxiety
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.154

Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus, Fall, Home
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Blessed, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

Henry Ward Beecher
Virtue, Conditions
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 611, 1895.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Mean, Progress
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

Henry Ward Beecher
Thinking, Mind, Doe

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher
Suffering, Made, Has Beens
Henry Ward Beecher, Irene H. Ovington (1901). “Comforting Thoughts: Spoken by Henry Ward Beecher in Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers”

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Thinking, Doe
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.29

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Stars, Silence
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, White, Black

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Soul, Infinite
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Henry Ward Beecher
Anxiety, Danger, Treason
Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.36

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Science, Tree
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Medicine, Joy
Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Henry Ward Beecher
Wise, Spiritual, Sorry

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Henry Ward Beecher
Humility, True Humility, Servility

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

Henry Ward Beecher
Courage, Believe, Oysters
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Henry Ward Beecher
Clever, Men, Wings

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