Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
To go to extremes is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness.
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Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king.
Green indiscretion, flattery of greatness, Rawness of judgement, wilfulness in folly, Thoughts vagrant as the wind, and as uncertain.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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You were never meant for greatness, Asmodean, only to follow those who are great.
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
greatness misfortune
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Sometimes I can tell the greatness of my mission with God by the resistance I am met with by the Devil.
How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space. But perhaps this is only a sudden movement of the soul from one to the other extreme, and in fact it is ever at one point only, as in the case of a firebrand.
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.
Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.
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