977 private quotes tagged great

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

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

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

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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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“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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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.” — Ray Bradbury

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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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“Thrift is of great revenue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.” — George Eliot

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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” — Gore Vidal

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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” — Ansel Adams

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“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” — Edmund Burke

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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.” — Robert Frost

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.” — Plutarch

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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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