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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Leadership, Being Strong
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Love Is, Personality
Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Stars, Father, War

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

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

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Coward, Public Opinion
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sadness, Past, Glowing
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Glasses, Opaque
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Wisdom, Nature
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Earning It, Effectiveness
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Selfish, War, Forgiving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Garden, Apples, Tree
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mom, Mother, War

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Powerful, Men, Law
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Henry Ward Beecher
Memorial Day, American Veterans, Clouds

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
Faith, Children, Silly
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Law, Lawyer, Valuable
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude, Pain, War
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.454

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

Henry Ward Beecher
Reign, Matter, Merchants
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “New Star Papers: Or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects ...”, p.118

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Thinking, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Henry Ward Beecher
Law, Riches, Poverty
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Hands, Tongue
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.261

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage, Men, Married
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.29

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

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

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

Henry Ward Beecher
Spring, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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