977 private quotes tagged great

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.” — George Eliot

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“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson

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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” — Karl Marx

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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” — Lord Byron

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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — William Shakespeare

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Great ideas originate in the muscles.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.” — Harry S. Truman

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