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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Henry Ward Beecher
Girl, Growing Up, Children
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Thinking, Hands

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy, Twins, Twin Sister

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

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

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher
Learning, People, Use
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.283

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

Henry Ward Beecher
Science, Wind, Law

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

Henry Ward Beecher
Snow, Sorrow, Dimples

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Vanity, Excellence
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.295

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Henry Ward Beecher
Speech, Speak, One Love
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.55

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

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

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Eye, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.96, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Flower, Domes
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Tree, Huge
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.99, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Men, Appreciate
"Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature".

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Henry Ward Beecher
Change, Country, Cities
Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.128

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Sleep, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven, Tire, Restless

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

Henry Ward Beecher
Growing Up, Pride, Men

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Garden, Sake
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness, Engineering, Achievement
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Generosity, Watches, Poverty

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Henry Ward Beecher
Skins, Doctrine, Agnosticism
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Men, Circles
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Civilization, Imagination
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Henry Ward Beecher
Book, Exercise, Air
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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