Quotes with greatness-great

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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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Booker T. Washington The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
    Speech in Boston, 30-7-1903
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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