Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Napoleon Hill Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aeschylus For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • George Eliot Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Joubert Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Great intellects are skeptical.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Adolf Hitler Great liars are also great magicians.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Vauvenargues Great thoughts always come from the heart.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Leigh Hunt Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Thomas Carlyle I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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