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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”— Albert Einstein
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“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”— George Eliot
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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”— Lord Byron
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“I always entertain great hopes.”— Robert Frost
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“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”— Samuel Johnson
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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”— Anatole France
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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“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.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Produce great men, the rest follows.”— Walt Whitman
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”— Wayne Gretzky
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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”— Søren Kierkegaard