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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter, Children, Hate

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Henry Ward Beecher
Money, Children, Adults

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

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

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”

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Children, Parenting

Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Home, Parent
Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Father

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Hands, Parent
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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

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

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

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

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Father, Dark

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Names
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.363

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Wonder, Pity
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty, Children, Dwelling
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

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

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Boys, People
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.77

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

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

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Children, Live Life
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Children, Humorous

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

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

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
Trust, Mother, Children

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

Henry Ward Beecher
Children, Home, Grieving
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

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

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