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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 are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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Greatness knows itself.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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

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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

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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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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

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

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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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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

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