The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is. Henry Ward Beecher ocean love thinking The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher summer positive love 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 success men life The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. Henry Ward Beecher broken-heart practice war For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes. Henry Ward Beecher horse dog animal Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. Henry Ward Beecher form christianity jesus Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them. Henry Ward Beecher nature kindness morning The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. Henry Ward Beecher success inspirational life Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher inspirational funny book All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. Henry Ward Beecher ordinary men life Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher nature rain adventure To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Henry Ward Beecher tribes roots tree If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Henry Ward Beecher ifs christian men Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher charity inspirational heaven Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. Henry Ward Beecher never-forget inspirational war I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher names writing men Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. Henry Ward Beecher very-good poverty house The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches. Henry Ward Beecher riches coins soul No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. Henry Ward Beecher emotional feelings long A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Henry Ward Beecher anger men life
