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  • Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • St. John of the Cross It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • St. John of the Cross Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Daniel Webster Mind is the great lever of all things.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • William Hazlitt No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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  • Edmund Burke Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Francis Bacon Small matters win great commendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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