Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Dangerous
Suspected
Feeling
Spurs
Feelings
Impulse
Nothing
Acts
Sometimes
Excited
Even
Forward
Men
Spring
Unfruitful
Emotion
Spur
More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
Henry Ward Beecher
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
Henry Ward Beecher
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Henry Ward Beecher
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
Henry Ward Beecher
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
Henry Ward Beecher
A dull ax never loves grindstones.
Henry Ward Beecher
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
Henry Ward Beecher
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
Henry Ward Beecher
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher