“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
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“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
“The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.”
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
“I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!”
“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”