Greatness Quote by William Hazlitt

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” quote by William Hazlitt — Download Open image

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go…

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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

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“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

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“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts…

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

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Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

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