Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2172.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
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To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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