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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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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.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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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) -
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.
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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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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
― St. John of the Cross
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
― Frederick Douglass
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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.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
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