Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Anne Stevenson Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Joseph Roux Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
    Bill Berry
     
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Philip James Bailey Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
    Source: Festus
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Albert Camus Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bitsie Tulloch Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • John Adams Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Ann Patchett Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Seneca Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bill Richardson President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Produce great men, the rest follows.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Smiles Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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