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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

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Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

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And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

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I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

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The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

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