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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

Past, Roots, Tree

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Henry Ward Beecher

War, Blood, Europe

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Important, Habit

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Henry Ward Beecher

Flags, Errands, World

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Henry Ward Beecher

Time, War, Anger

"Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.