Greatness

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• Quote 2486

  Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2200

  To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization

  by: Harriet Beecher-Stowe

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• Quote 2195

  What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic

  by: Harriet Beecher-Stowe

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• Quote 2130

  The arts of peace are great, And no less glorious than those of war

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 1777

  It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1700

  Great necessities call out great virtues

  by: Abigail Smith Adams

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• Quote 1572

  There would be no great men if there were no little ones

  by: George Herbert

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• Quote 1544

  Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen

  by: Benjamin Disraeli

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• Quote 1535

  In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

  by: Charles Caleb Colton

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• Quote 910

  Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness

  by: George Bernard Shaw

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• Quote 597

  To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  by: Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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• Quote 507

  The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it

  by: Francis Bacon

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