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Henry Ward Beecher

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#humor #humor

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#inspirational #life #wisdom #inspirational

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#love

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#peace #quarrel #widom #humor

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#inspirational

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward Beecher


— Henry Ward Beecher


#sanity #sanity

Now comes the mystery! (last words)


— Henry Ward Beecher


#heaven #last-words #life #paradise #death

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#observatory #soul #telescope #without #would

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#how #i #knew #love #never

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.


— Henry Ward Beecher


#anxiety #every #handle #handles #hold






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Did you know about Henry Ward Beecher?

His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal. "
Muscular and long-haired the preacher was close to a series of attractive young women but his wife Eunice the mother of his 10 children was "unloved. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million.

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24 1813 – March 8 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman social reformer abolitionist and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

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