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

Greatness, Science, Genius, Legacy

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

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"Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary."

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

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

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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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"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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Greatness is the flower of great adversity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men."

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"Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life, it grows in the adversity of life."

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"God created us to be great in our calling."

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"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."

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"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

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"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."

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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

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"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

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"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

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"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

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