Quote

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Rallying
Signal
Signals
Fear
Soul

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Speak of the appetite for drink or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love is the world's river of life
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Henry Ward Beecher