Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Benjamin Franklin Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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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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  • Pietro Metastasio High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Anthony Trollope High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Aldous Huxley Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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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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  • Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According to those who haven't - like her husband - she's a delight.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bridget Riley His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • A. E. Housman His folly has not fellow
    Beneath the blue of day
    That gives to man or woman
    His heart and soul away.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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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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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Abdallah II Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Billy Joel Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Alan Greenspan History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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