A man's true state of power and riches i... by Henry Ward Beecher | We Heart Quotes

Man Power preacher social reformer abolitionist

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Art Power Being

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

- Henry Ward Beecher

School Education

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Men

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Grave World

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Excuses Man

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

- Henry Ward Beecher

God Man

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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