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- A little praise goes a great ways.
- Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
- Every great man is unique.
- Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
- Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
- He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
- A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
- When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
- The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
- For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
- The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
- The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
- If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
- All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
- Fear is a great instructor.
- By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
- What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
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