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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sex, Women, People
Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.254, Applewood Books

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

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

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

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

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Strong, Character

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Men, Funeral
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Majority, Population
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hope, Optimism, Architect
Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher
Government, Revolution, Vote
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Flower, Character

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Years

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Daughter, Children
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher
Freedom, War, Obedience

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lamps, Rooms, Kind

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Children, Parenting

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Eggs, Generosity
Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Sky, Pyramids
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher
Family, Mothers Day, Mom
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”

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ocean, Men, Wind
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.131

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Cheer, Matter, Today

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

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

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher
Government, World, Anarchy
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher
Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Henry Ward Beecher
Music, Men, Thinking
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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