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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."
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"He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama."
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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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"There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation."
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"In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them."
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"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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"To be great is not a word but work that makes a word."
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"Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary."
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"To create greatness, give away your life for the success of others."
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"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."
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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
Nationalism
"I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will."
Motivation
"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."
Creativity
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
Woman
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"
Life
"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."
Literature
"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."
Life
"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!"
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