977 private quotes tagged great

“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.” — Edmund Burke

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.” — Plutarch

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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” — William Butler Yeats

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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” — Lee Iacocca

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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — George Eliot

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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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