Show some well known sayings from sermons by beecher some of the well known sayings of at henry ward beecher which have been taken from his sermons and addresses are happiness is not the end of life character is flowers are the sweetest things that god ever made and forgot to put a soul into the truest self respect is not to think of self there is somebody to believe in anybody who is uppermost selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and no one is without in himself the real man is one who always finds excuses tor for others but never tor for himself the elect are those who will and the non elect are those who wont success is full of promise till men get it and then it is a last years nest from which the birds have flown 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 A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself the philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next men are called fools in one age tor for not knowing what they were called fools for averring in the age before there are many people who think sunday Is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week |