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Edmund Burke
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles
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Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility
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Lev Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth
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Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought
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Blaise Pascal
Great and small suffer the same mishaps
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Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door
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William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
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Mohandas Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men
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Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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