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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"You can become great through the power of time."
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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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"Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life, it grows in the adversity of life."
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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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"To be great is not a word but work that makes a word."
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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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"Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works."
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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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"You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness."
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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
Greatness
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
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"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
Thought
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
Heart
"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."
People
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
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"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
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