Quotes with greatness-great

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  • I Ching He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Anna C. Brackett He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hybels He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John Henry Newman Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Alexander the Great Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Heywood Broun Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Lord George Byron Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Brit Marling Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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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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