Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man is always willing to be little.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Meredith A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A small leak can sink a great ship
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • John N. Mitchell Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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  • Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Love is a great beautifier.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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