He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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 a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
In this world it is not what you take up but what you give up that makes you rich.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom Which springs from the soul.
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

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