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> [“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness of the material from which we have to mould it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of-human-greatness-is-the-moment/)

Bill Hopkins

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## More by Bill Hopkins

> [“We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man’s triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions-with-christian-social-virtues/)

Bill Hopkins

> [“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of-human-greatness-is-the-moment/)

Bill Hopkins

> [“Divorce a man from purpose and his life becomes meaningless, no better than an animal’s. The trouble is that most purposes are exhausted too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/divorce-a-man-from-purpose-and-his-life-becomes-meaningless-no-better/)

Bill Hopkins

> [“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We are penned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/we-are-suffering-all-of-us-because-of-the-emptiness-that-surrounds-us/)

Bill Hopkins

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