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Great Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
- In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious…
- The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
- Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is…
- Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than…
- We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the…
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one…
- All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is…
- There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
- God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ...…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong