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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher
Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Heart, Pleasure
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Pride, Idols
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Henry Ward Beecher
Grief, Heart, Mountain
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Heart, Eye
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Love Is, Light
Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beecher
Home, Heart, Suggestions
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

Henry Ward Beecher
Spring, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

Henry Ward Beecher
Stars, Heart, Past
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.9

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Heart, Flames

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Heart, Giving

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship, Heart, Bells
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Stones, Prison

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Men, God Love
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sweet, Grateful, Heart

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher
Memorable, Heart, History

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

Henry Ward Beecher
Future, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Night, Land

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Heart, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Government, Suffering

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Henry Ward Beecher
Pain, Heart, Arrows
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 not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Longing, Moments
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, 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
Gratitude, Heart, Eye
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Heaven, Musician
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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