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Quotations on Greatness

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by James Russell Lowell
(February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891)

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

by Ben Jonson
(June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637)

For he that once is good, is ever great.

by Bible

God is greater than man.

by William Hazlitt
(April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

by Bible

He that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

by William Hazlitt
(April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830)

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

by Herman Melville
(August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891)

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
(December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881)

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881)

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.


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