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: Motivational - Success - Faith - Art - Humor.
"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"
"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments"
"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"
"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 true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right"
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope"
"The most dangerous people are the ignorant"
"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences"
"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success"
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves"
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"
"I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent"
"Books are not men and yet they stay alive"
"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child"
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot"
"A church debt is the devil's salary"
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable"
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred"
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government"
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others"
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown"
"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"
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top"
"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"
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it"
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends"
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation"
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next"
"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better"
"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never"
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice"
"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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy"
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has"
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship"
"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"
"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude"
"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty"
