"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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"Greatness demands great courage."

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

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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Japanese Statesman

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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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"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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

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"To create greatness, give away your life for the success of others."

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"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."

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"Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace."

Power

"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world."

Happiness

"First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety."

Life

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

Wife

"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

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

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"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."

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"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."

Time

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

Time

"When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts."

Time