Quote

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Turns
Wagon
Happiness
Wagons
Without
Pebbles
Every
Mirth
Men
Springs
Like
Caused
Spring
Jolt
Motivational
Pebble

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Religion is using everything for God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A dull ax never loves grindstones.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
Henry Ward Beecher