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Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as the hills,
The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else
Comes on the mind with the like shock as though
Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169)
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Characteristics (vol. III)
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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sartor Resartus--The Everlasting Yea (bk. II, ch. IX)
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No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Natura Deorum (II, 66)
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The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XV)
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So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.
Author: Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
Source: The Private of the Buffs
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No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Second Series--Uses of Great Men
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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Uses of Great Men
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The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Uses of Great Men
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Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate;
But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.
Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great
And to be really great are just the same?
Author: Richard Le Gallienne
Source: Alfred Tennyson
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (II, 1, 13)
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
Author: Ben Jonson
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.
Author: Richard Knolles
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.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Source: Crowds (bk. II, ch. XV)
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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Kavanagh (ch. I)
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great
occasions.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: A Great Man
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Source: None
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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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.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Source: None
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Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Author: Greek Proverb
Source: None
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Source: None
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Author: Thomas W. Higginson
Source: None
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
Author: John W. Gardner
Source: None
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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.
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Source: None
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Author: Truman Capote
Source: None
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Author: Thomas Fuller, M. D.
Source: None
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