182 Quotations by Henry Ward Beecher
- 1. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud ...
- 2. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with ...
- 3. A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp ...
- 4. A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means fo ...
- 5. A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
- 6. A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck an ...
- 7. A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
- 8. A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi ...
- 9. A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- 10. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
- 11. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th ...
- 12. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- 13. A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invent ...
- 14. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
- 15. All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- 16. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right ...
- 17. All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- 18. Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree... but ...
- 19. Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
- 20. Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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