Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook. Henry Ward Beecher hunting fishing men If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius. Henry Ward Beecher common-sense genius men A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. Henry Ward Beecher cunning-man half men Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. Henry Ward Beecher christianity home sometimes Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in. Henry Ward Beecher porcelain color character No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. Henry Ward Beecher men children world Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. Henry Ward Beecher truth-is ideas school There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. Henry Ward Beecher anything-worth-doing famous-inspirational motivational At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone. Henry Ward Beecher rocks summer song The beginning is the promise of the end. Henry Ward Beecher ends promise Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. Henry Ward Beecher mets pushing truth Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. Henry Ward Beecher contemplation ends self We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. Henry Ward Beecher blessed inspirational character We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. Henry Ward Beecher good-morning time life Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. Henry Ward Beecher next victory sweet Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. Henry Ward Beecher hate parent long To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. Henry Ward Beecher good-work doubt men Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. Henry Ward Beecher men life way The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash. Henry Ward Beecher sea running men Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way. Henry Ward Beecher shining sea men
