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Greatness Quotes by George Herbert
- Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
- A great ship asks deep water.
- There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
- You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
- There would be no great ones if there were no little ones
More Greatness Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
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- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
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- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte