977 private quotes tagged great

“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.” — Anatole France

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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.” — Mark Twain

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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” — Samuel Johnson

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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.” — Gore Vidal

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“No man was ever great by imitation.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” — Francis Bacon

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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo

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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato

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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Great countries are those that produce great people.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

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