A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher 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 teaching education men All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. Henry Ward Beecher fruit men world Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism. Henry Ward Beecher reflection men believe Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. Henry Ward Beecher forever men heaven Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. Henry Ward Beecher fragments truth Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. Henry Ward Beecher stars war father When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep. Henry Ward Beecher dog running fall God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent. Henry Ward Beecher hope men order Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. Henry Ward Beecher eternal-vigilance vigilance liberty A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm. Henry Ward Beecher adults money children The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. Henry Ward Beecher miserable men world Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. Henry Ward Beecher running attitude war Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. Henry Ward Beecher pyramids sky men There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother. Henry Ward Beecher slave mother heaven Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. Henry Ward Beecher carts fiery genius The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example. Henry Ward Beecher odor ruts example It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. Henry Ward Beecher love men war Life is a plant that grows out of death. Henry Ward Beecher grows plant life There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast. Henry Ward Beecher ocean wind men Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. Henry Ward Beecher soul law long
