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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. - Daniel Webster There is something on earth greater than arbitrary power. The thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judgment of the people is more. - Daniel Webster O, happy they that never saw the court, Nor ever knew great men but by report! - John Webster, The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona (act V, sc. VI) The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. - Edwin Percy Whipple Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence. - Walt Whitman Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. - Robert Aris Willmott A great man is made so for others. - Thomas Wilson (2) Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. - William Winter There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. - William Winter That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies. - Edward Young High stations, tumult, but not bliss, create; None think the great unhappy, but the great. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 237) Great let me call him, for he conquered me. - Edward Young, The Revenge (act I, sc. 1) Displaying page 9 of 9 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9]
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