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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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#every #foundation #man #morality #remember

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

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

#american idea #democratic #every #every man #god

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human nature #nature #weak #where

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bell #conservative #funeral #men #nation

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#flesh #much #state #terrible #too

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember. ↗

— Rand Beers

#answer #business #cannot #day-to-day #desk

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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