Quote

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Memories
Harmonies
House
Melodies
Home
Melody
Life
Remembered
Harmony
Memory
Singing
Joy

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
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
Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love is the wine of existence.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not work that kills men it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better nobler holier than it knows now.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry and where is there a more kingly flower?
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Henry Ward Beecher