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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The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

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Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.

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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

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Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

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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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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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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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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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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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