977 private quotes tagged great

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

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

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“They never fail who die in a great cause.” — Lord Byron

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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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“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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“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I always entertain great hopes.” — Robert Frost

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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” — 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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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.” — Anatole France

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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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“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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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain

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

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