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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

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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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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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