Author Topic: ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes ~ (Read 11850 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:53:21 AM »

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:54:13 AM »

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:54:48 AM »

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:55:25 AM »

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** October 18, 2014, 12:08:34 PM »

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** October 18, 2014, 12:09:34 PM »

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:05:54 PM »

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:06:23 PM »

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:06:54 PM »

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:07:23 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:07:54 PM »

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:08:21 PM »

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:08:58 PM »

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:09:28 PM »

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** October 18, 2014, 07:09:55 PM »

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

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