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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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"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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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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"You can become great through the power of time."
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"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
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"It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great."
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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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"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."
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"Greatness demands great courage."
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"Greatness is the flower of great adversity."
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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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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
Greatness
"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
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
Independence
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
Leap
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
Power
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"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."
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"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
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