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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de La Bruyère
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After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
Kin Hubbard
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
John Donne
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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman
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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Bob Dylan
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
Jean de La Bruyère
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller M.D.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great men are not always wise.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Edmund Burke
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Earl of Chesterfield
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Leigh Hunt
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Samuel Johnson
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He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Darrow
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
Leo Tolstoy
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In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
William Shakespeare
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
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It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Seneca the Younger
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Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean de La Fontaine
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them
William Shakespeare
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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Frank Dane
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
William Shakespeare
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Edmund Burke
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Khalil Gibran
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Samuel Johnson
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
Henry Miller
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. Chesterton
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Horace
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen
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