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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Truth
Horace Mann

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
Passion
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Blaise Pascal

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Slander
Edgar Allan Poe

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The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Greatness
Proverb

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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Dreams
Zadoc Rabinowitz

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Greatness
Jean Rostand

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Sir Walter Scott

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Greatness
Seneca

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Gratitude
Seneca

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Greatness
William Shakespeare

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Excellence
Charles Simmons

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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Originality
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Greatness
Jonathan Swift

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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Greatness
Publilius Syrus

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Friends and Friendship
Nahum Tate

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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Greatness
Count Leo Tolstoy

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Power
Stewart Udall

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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Greatness
Source Unknown

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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Tragedies
Stephen Vizinczey

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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
Exaggeration
Voltaire

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Work
Simone Weil

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Cheerfulness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Experience is the key to greatness.
Experience
Arthur Williams

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Greatness
Oprah Winfrey

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun