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Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart...
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Theology is but...
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Source: In Correct...
Men are like...
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
In the ordinary...
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it...
The difference between...
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a...
Books are not...
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a...
The head learns...
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
Every artist dips...
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A person without...
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the...
Greatness lies not...
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Source: In...
What a mother...
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Source: In...
Truths are first...
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
Source: Life Thoughts,...
The strength of...
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
It is defeat...
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men...
It is not...
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Source:...
There is no...
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Source: In...
Now comes the...
Now comes the mystery.
Source: Said on his deathbed.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, (Jun...
A tool is...
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine...
Defeat is a...
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Source: In Webster's...
Young love is...
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the...