Quotes with greatness-great

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2249.

• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

  Henry van Dyke
  American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

  George Moore
  Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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• There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

  Anna Quindlen
  American author and journalist (1952 - )
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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

  Auberon Herbert
  British writer, theorist, philosopher
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• There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  Louis Kronenberger
  American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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• There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

  Charles Dudley Warner
  American writer (1829 - 1900)
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• There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

  Carol Leifer
  American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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• There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

  George Herbert
  English poet (1593 - 1633)
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• There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• misunderstanding
• inspiration
• individual
• compliment
• frequently
• embarrass

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