"Some are born great, others achieve greatness."
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"The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy."
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"When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear."
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"Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul."
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"Great men are sincere."
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"The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him."
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"We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness."
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"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."
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"It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work."
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"There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude."
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"True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit."
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"Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you."
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"My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best.""
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"He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best."
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"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness."
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"Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain."
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"Let your greatness bloom."
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"To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune."
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"It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects."
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