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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

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

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

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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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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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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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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

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When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

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

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Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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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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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

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