Henry Ward Beecher was a 19th-century American Congregationalist clergyman, social agitator, and speaker. He was born upon June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut and died on March 8, 1887 in Brooklyn, New York. Beecher was a popular activist as well as supported for completion of slavery in the United States. He was likewise a well-known preacher and also public speaker, and also his sermons were prominent as well as widely went to. He was the sibling of renowned author and also advocate for women's rights, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Henry Ward Beecher was a charming and prominent number in the 19th century, as well as his speeches and also lectures commonly dealt with essential social as well as political concerns of the time. He was a solid advocate for women's legal rights, and was just one of the first public figures to speak out in support of birth control. He was also an advocate of temperance as well as sustained the activity to outlaw alcohol.
Beecher was a preferred lecturer, and his speeches were widely reported in the press. He was understood for his wit and also wit, as well as his capacity to get in touch with his audiences and make complicated suggestions accessible to a broad variety of individuals. He was a solid advocate of the Union during the American Civil War as well as utilized his system to urge people to enlist and sustain the battle initiative.
In addition to his job as a social reformer and speaker, Beecher was additionally a prolific writer. He created numerous books, consisting of a popular collection of lectures as well as a book. Regardless of his numerous accomplishments, Beecher was additionally the subject of a top-level detraction in the 1870s, when he was implicated of having an event with a. The test was widely covered in the press as well as was just one of one of the most thrilling occasions of its time.
In General, Henry Ward Beecher was a complex and complex person who made a considerable impact on American culture during his life time. His speeches and also writings remain to be widely reviewed and also examined today.
Our collection contains 92 quotes who is written / told by Henry, under the main topics: Art - Motivational - Success - Humor - Power.
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"
"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom"
"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude"
"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk"
"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"
"The unthankful heart... 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!"
"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success"
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"
"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments"
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage"
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope"
"The most dangerous people are the ignorant"
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself"
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started"
"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself"
"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself"
"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance"
"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain"
"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it"
"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences"
"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere"
"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages"
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"
"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves"
"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung"
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves"
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient"
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one"
"Love is the river of life in the world"
"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own"
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness"
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how"
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life"
"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"
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven"
"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself"
"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are"
"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's"
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning"
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself"
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart"
"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions"
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith"
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road"
