Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character mu...
LYMAN BEECHER No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
LYMAN BEECHER Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character mu...
LYMAN BEECHER No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
LYMAN BEECHER Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
LYMAN BEECHER Patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
LYMAN ABBOTT A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- ...
LYMAN ABBOTT The highest qualities of character must be earned.
LYMAN ABBOTT Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
LYMAN BRYSON Oft did I wonder why the setting sun Should look upon us with a blushing face: Is't not for sh...
LYMAN HEATH All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because ...
LYMAN ABBOTT Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti...
LYMAN TRUMBULL This new signal is roughly 100 times weaker than the signal we analyzed three years ago and about a ...
LYMAN PAGE The Chinese are offering the loan as an alternative to working with the IMF.
PRINCETON LYMAN The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and...
LYMAN ABBOTT The highest qualities of character must be earned
LYMAN ABBOTT The highest qualities of character… must be earned
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because...
LYMAN ABBOTT The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT We knew we needed a major snowstorm in the forecast. It's disappointing.
JIM LYMAN Some people had doubts about an African-American woman leading the congregation, but it just took on...
KEVIN LYMAN The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error o...
LYMAN BRYSON We've seen worse injuries that have healed. Though we don't know what's going on inside.
ED LYMAN This is really a cooperative effort.
ED LYMAN It?s a great feeling. You?re tired out so you?re relieved, too. We were happy we could help this wha...
ED LYMAN Erika told me earlier that she was going to play big. She said 'Coach, I'm going to play big for her...
LYMAN FOSTER The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
LYMAN ABBOTT The highest qualities of character… must be earned
LYMAN ABBOTT It's nice that we can do these things, but this isn't long-term development.
PRINCETON LYMAN Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medic...
CHARLES LYMAN LOFFLER We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
LYMAN L. BRYSON That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of co...
LYMAN FRANK BAUM Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and th...
EDWARD R. LYMAN Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come tru...
LYMAN FRANK BAUM He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGGON We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
LYMAN LLOYD BRYSON I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood...
LYMAN PIERSON POWELL Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
LYMAN FRANK BAUM Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rai...
LYMAN FRANK BAUM The safest thing to do with plutonium is to leave it in spent fuel - since it is kept in larger, hea...
DR. EDWIN LYMAN If the administration is serious about keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists, the l...
DR. EDWIN LYMAN He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own
ELIAS LYMAN MAGGON We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellow man
LYMAN LLOYD BRYSON Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the ra...
LYMAN FRANK BAUM Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
JOHN BEECHER Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
WILLARD BEECHER To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind ...
MARGUERITE BEECHER Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
WILLARD BEECHER Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered...
CATHARINE BEECHER How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest...
CATHARINE BEECHER To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labor...
CATHARINE BEECHER As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrin...
CATHARINE BEECHER The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers...
CATHARINE BEECHER The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
CATHARINE BEECHER As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theolo...
CATHARINE BEECHER The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A woman's health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the bea...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children;...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectabl...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Human nature is above all things lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God mak...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be ver...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Love is the river of life in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cri...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not ho...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majorit...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into
HENRY WARD BEECHER The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, ine...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of kee...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitte...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of f...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent compan...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest ...
CATHARINE ESTHER BEECHER Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which often...
HENRY WARD BEECHER These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi...
HENRY WARD BEECHER To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study an...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has f...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are ex...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehears...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in hi...
HENRY WARD BEECHER To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Suffering is part of the divine idea.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrin...
CATHARINE ESTHER BEECHER Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
HENRY WARD BEECHER No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with frie...
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invent...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered...
CATHARINE ESTHER BEECHER Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and t...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard figh...
HENRY WARD BEECHER When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distres...
HENRY WARD BEECHER He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than...
HENRY WARD BEECHER All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties...
HENRY WARD BEECHER He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
HENRY WARD BEECHER This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisib...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so fa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
HENRY WARD BEECHER God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
HENRY WARD BEECHER He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
HENRY WARD BEECHER In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
HENRY WARD BEECHER See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER