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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 create greatness, give away your life for the success of others."
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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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"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."
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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."
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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, practice simplicity and express humility."
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"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air."
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"Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30."
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"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
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"Greatness is a spiritual condition."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Philosophy
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Inspirational
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
Perception
"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happiness
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
Philosophy
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