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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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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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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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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

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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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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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

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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

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

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