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    Burn to be great,
    Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
    The plains are everlasting as the hills,
    The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else
    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though
    Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which read more

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

by Gerald Stanley Lee Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,

No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,

by William Hazlitt Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,
And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.

Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,
And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.

by Richard Knolles Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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

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Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise read more

That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.

by Lord Lytton Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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