Greatness Quotes
These are some of the best 'Greatness' quotations and sayings.
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A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility - these only, denominate men great and glorious.
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A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
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A great mind may change its objects, but it cannot relinquish them; it must have something to pursue; variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose.
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A great ship asks deep water.
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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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A white wall is the fool's paper.
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All great men come out of the middle classes.
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Calmness is always Godlike.
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Difficulty is a nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them into strength and athletic proportions. - The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
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Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Few great men would have got past personnel.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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