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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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Brigham Young
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Eric Hoffer
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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John Ruskin
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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Jean De La Bruyere
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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Albert Camus
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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
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Oprah Winfrey
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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Harry S Truman
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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Publilius Syrus
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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Thomas Fuller
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Walter Savage Landor
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great men are not always wise.
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Bible
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Edmund Burke
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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Sydney Smith
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
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Leigh Hunt
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
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Hitopadesa
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Matthew Arnold
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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Jean Rostand
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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William Shakespeare
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Samuel Johnson
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He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
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Clarence Darrow
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Jonathan Swift
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
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Ray Charles
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I want to be great, something special.
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Sugar Ray Leonard
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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Source Unknown
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Charles Dickens
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Charles De Montesquieu
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It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
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James Watson
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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Seneca
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It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
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Edward Gardner
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Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
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Francis Picabia
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Jean De La Fontaine
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Epictetus
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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Samuel Johnson
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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
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Maralyn Polak
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Edward Young
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Lord Byron
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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
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Frank Dane
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
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William Shakespeare
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