If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher heartbreak missing-you love Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. Henry Ward Beecher nature wisdom happiness Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Henry Ward Beecher positive inspirational life Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher failure disappointment inspiring 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 failure light men October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors. Henry Ward Beecher autumn color beautiful God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else. Henry Ward Beecher god-bless good-nature bless The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher failure real men That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. Henry Ward Beecher manage energy children Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher garden nature flower We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. Henry Ward Beecher adversity war religion No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. Henry Ward Beecher towns house tree When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. Henry Ward Beecher soul mother beauty In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. Henry Ward Beecher joy happiness war A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. Henry Ward Beecher good-company longing book It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. Henry Ward Beecher prayer men war A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. Henry Ward Beecher thoughtful patriotism patriotic Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. Henry Ward Beecher truth liars lying You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. Henry Ward Beecher rich poor community When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Henry Ward Beecher funeral men war
