Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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 real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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 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 world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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24 June, 1813
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08 March, 1887
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