"I always knew I was destined for greatness."
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"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
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"It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent."
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"The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth."
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
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"Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction."
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."
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"Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they."
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"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see."
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"If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university."
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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
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"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest."
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"Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles."
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"I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle."
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"That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages."
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act."
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"We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness."
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"It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements."
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