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To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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

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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

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In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

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Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

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

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