Author Profile
Henry Ward Beecher
1813 – 1887 • American • Clergyman
72
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Collected Meditations
Showing 72 quotesThe 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.— Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.— Henry Ward Beecher
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.— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.— Henry Ward Beecher
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.— Henry Ward Beecher
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.— Henry Ward Beecher
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.— Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.— Henry Ward Beecher
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.— Henry Ward Beecher