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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Alexander the Great There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man is always willing to be little.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Meredith A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A small leak can sink a great ship
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • John N. Mitchell Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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