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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Henry Ward Beecher
Change, Art, Philosophy
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”

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, War, Get Well Soon
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Men, Ends
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.94

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

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

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Nature, Spring

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Inspiration, Men
"Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Art, Years
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Lonely, Art

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dream, Art, Men

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