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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness, Arrogant, Exclusive
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.267

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness, Men, Air

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Greatness, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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 is not saved by his intention.

Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness, Engineering, Achievement
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Henry Ward Beecher
Plato, Greatness, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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