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Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges to their possessor, so much as they bring duties.
Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges to their possessor, so much as they bring duties.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Henry Ward Beecher
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1813 to 1887; Wikidata Q1607404, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607404 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 202; printed byline: Henry Ward Beecher; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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