Henry Ward Beecher Quotes:
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Source: Connecticut History
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher