Quote

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Sure
Many
Great
Hens
Like
Virtues
Neighborhood
Patience
Virtue
Everybody

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
Henry Ward Beecher