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“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
William Hazlitt Quotes Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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“Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. III, l. 293), (Pope's translation)
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“That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (II, 1, 13)
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“For he that once is good, is ever great.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: The Forest--To Lady Aubigny
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“Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,
And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.”
Richard Knolles Quotes Source: Turkish History (l. 13), under a portrait of Mustapha I
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“It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands
defauts.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes
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“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes Source: Crowds (bk. II, ch. XV)
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“Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Kavanagh (ch. I)
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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great
occasions.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: My Study Windows--Garfield
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“That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: A Great Man
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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes |
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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.”
Greek proverb Quotes |
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”
Thomas W. Higginson Quotes |
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“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
John W. Gardner Quotes |
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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
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“Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.”
Truman Capote Quotes |
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“Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
Thomas Fuller, M. D. Quotes |
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