Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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About Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Henry Ward BeecherThe babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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 f…
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!
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the gre…
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
The dog is the god of frolic.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.