Quotes with great-grandmother

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  • John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abigail Adams Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Bishop Westcott Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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  • Napoleon Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • E. M. Cioran Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • William Cowper Great princes have great playthings.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Alan Dershowitz Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Bob Seger Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Great souls endure in silence.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
    Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Charles Kuralt Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Jesse Jackson Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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