“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”
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“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.”
“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”
“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.”
“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.”
“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
“When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.”
“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”
“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”
“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”
“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
“No man was ever great by imitation.”
“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”
“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”