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He is not great who is not greatly good.
Greatness
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.
Greatness
Ray Charles

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I want to be great, something special.
Greatness
Sugar Ray Leonard

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

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Greatness
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.
Greatness
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.
Greatness
Epictetus

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No one ever became great by imitation.
Greatness
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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