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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

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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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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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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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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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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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You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

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

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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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The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

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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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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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Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

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