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Be good and you will be lonely
Be good and you will be lonely
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.]
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
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.
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.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
