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"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."
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"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon, it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."


"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"


"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."


"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."


"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."


"As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate."
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