977 private quotes tagged great

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.” — Blaise Pascal

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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller

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“A great mind becomes a great fortune.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — George Eliot

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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” — Edmund Burke

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” — George Eliot

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“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.” — Martin Luther

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“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!” — John F. Kennedy

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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.” — Francis Bacon

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“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.” — Aeschylus

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“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.” — John Wooden

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“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” — Mae West

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“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.” — Emma Watson

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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” — John Ruskin

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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield

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“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.” — Hugh Leonard

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