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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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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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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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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who read more

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

by G. K. Chesterton 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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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., read more

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]

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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

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