John Donne Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Men Quotes

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.

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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

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