Henry Ward Beecher Quotes about Feelings

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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

Emotional, Long, Feelings

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

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Light, Soul, Feelings

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Spring, Men, Feelings

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Henry Ward Beecher

War, Feelings, Action

"Life Thoughts".

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Henry Ward Beecher

Feelings, Bows, Sometimes

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Henry Ward Beecher

Flower, Feelings, Relaxation

Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.270

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

Long, Feelings, May

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

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Feelings, Soul

Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company