Quotes with great-sounding

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Milan Kundera No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Epictetus No great thing is created suddenly.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • John Ruskin No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Henry Miller No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one ever became great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir William Temple No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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