"We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen."
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"Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness"
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"The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his."
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"Difficulty is the nurse of greatness."
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"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
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"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be."
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"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."
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"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."
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"I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it."
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"If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness."
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"Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown."
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"The path to greatness is along with others."
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"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment."
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"It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done."
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"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."
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"The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition."
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"A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman."
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"Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery."
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"It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat."
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"Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms."
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