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  • Edward Dahlberg Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Tryon Edwards High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Queen Victoria His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Samuel Johnson His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • D'Avenant Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
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  • Baltasar Gracian Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bob Mould How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bum Phillips How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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