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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Men, Roots

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Soul, Infinite
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sadness, Past, Glowing
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

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

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Joy, Trouble

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Age, Results
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Wings, Development

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Roots, Tree
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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