Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville He was as great as a man can be without morality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Dryden He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • James Freeman Clarke He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Herman Melville He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Penn He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • I Ching He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Anna C. Brackett He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hybels He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John Henry Newman Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Alexander the Great Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Heywood Broun Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Lord George Byron Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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