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"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon, it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."
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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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"Truth is the summit of being, justice is the application of it to affairs."
Justice
"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals."
Wisdom
"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics."
Nature
"To Be is to live with God."
Faith
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."
Wisdom
"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
Self
"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."
Philosophy
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."
Inspirational
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
Wisdom
"True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer."
Love
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