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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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"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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"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."
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"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
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"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
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"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."
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"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
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"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire."
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"Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched."
Men
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Greatness
"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."
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"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise."
Disguise
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