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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human. - Will Rogers Great souls are harmonious. - Joseph Roux As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. - Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent--Prologue (l. 3) Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. - John Ruskin Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. - John Ruskin No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort. - John Ruskin I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph. - George Augustus Henry Sala Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met. - William Saroyan The curse of greatness: Ears ever open to the babbler's tale. [Ger., Es ist der Fluch der Hohen, dass die Niedern Sich ihres offnen Ohrs bemachtigen.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Die Braut von Messina (I) He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. [Lat., Si vir es, suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Brevitate (XX) Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness. - John Campbell Shairp Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them, But in the less, foul profanation. * * * * * That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. - William Shakespeare Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too. - William Shakespeare Heaven knows, I had no such intent; But that necessity so bow'd the state, That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss. - William Shakespeare Nay, then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. - William Shakespeare O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? - William Shakespeare Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii) Are yet two Romans living such as these? The last of all the Romans, fare thee well! - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at V, iii) He presently, as greatness knows itself, Steps me a little higher than his vow Made to my father, while his blood was poor, Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh; And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform Some certain edicts and some strait decrees That lie too heavy on the commonwealth; Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep Over his country's wrongs; and by this face, This seeming brow of justice, did he win The hearts of all that he did angle for; Proceeded further--cut me off the heads Of all the favorites that the absent king In deputation left behind him here When he was personal in the Irish war. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, iii) Worthy Montano, you were wont to be civil; The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted, and your name is great In mouths of wisest censure. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at II, iii) But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and fortune joined to make thee great. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, i) I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii) So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii) Displaying page 7 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9
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