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Most 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…
- The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable…
- If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
- Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in…
- Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever…
- The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
- The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
- God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
- Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest…
- Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That…
- The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
- Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead…
- A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It…
- When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a…
- Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster