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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."

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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."

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"In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you."

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"He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama."

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"The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness."

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"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

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"You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness."

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"Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works."

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"We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness."

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"There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation."

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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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"The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer."
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