"Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none."

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"Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none."

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Greatness, Nation, Values, Virtues

"The heart is more important than the head when it comes to achieving greatness.For the average task, only the intellect is needed but a great challenge will require heart and soul."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Greatness, Heart, Intellect, Passion

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

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Japanese Statesman

Greatness, Action, Work, Humility

"To be great is not a word but work that makes a word."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Greatness, Work, Effort, Life

"It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Greatness, Life, Choice, Potential

"You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Greatness, Help, Success, Support

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

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Greatness, Science, Genius, Legacy

"Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Greatness, Humility, Awareness, Truth

"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Greatness, Sun, Hidden, Shine

"Greatness always inspires you to be great."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."

Design

"As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further."

Success

"Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time."

Time

"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence."

Nature

"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English."

Wife

"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose."

Time

"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery."

Wisdom

"As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws."

Faith

"Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him."

Love

"The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire."

Comfort