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No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
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.
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.]
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
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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.]
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
