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Letter "G" » Greatness
"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
About: Greatness
"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
About: Greatness
"We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness."
Author: Thomas Carlyle
About: Greatness
"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
About: Greatness
"No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Greatness
"The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire."
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
About: Greatness
"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
About: Greatness
"No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty."
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
About: Greatness
"To be great is to be misunderstood."
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
About: Greatness
"He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Greatness
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