Henry Ward Beecher quotes was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. Born: 06/24/1813 Died: 03/08/1887 Country: usa

• 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 friendship. (Henry Ward Beecher) [love/speak/truth/words]
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher) [artist/nature]
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher) [books/furniture]
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher) [ability/]
• It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant. (Henry Ward Beecher) [remember]
• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher) [forget]
• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. (Henry Ward Beecher) [god/willpower/life/choice]
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/anxiety/faith]
• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. (Henry Ward Beecher) [knowledge/knowledge/teach/teach]
• A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• Faith is spiritualized imagination. (Henry Ward Beecher) [faith/imagination]
• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. (Henry Ward Beecher) [god]
• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Henry Ward Beecher) [defeat/school/truth]
• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. (Henry Ward Beecher) [education/knowledge/men]
• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry Ward Beecher) [philosophy]
• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. (Henry Ward Beecher) [quality/bad/human/darkness]
• That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. (Henry Ward Beecher) [culture]
• Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. (Henry Ward Beecher) [defeat/defeat/defeat/men]
• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. (Henry Ward Beecher) [people/excellence/point]
• A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. (Henry Ward Beecher) [school]
• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. (Henry Ward Beecher) [character]
• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. (Henry Ward Beecher) [present/willpower/find]
• Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. (Henry Ward Beecher) [death/flower]
• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; (Henry Ward Beecher) [death/life]
• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. (Henry Ward Beecher) [church/christians/school/education]

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