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Martin Luther King
"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."
Martin Luther King
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Lord Byron
"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die."
Lord Byron
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"The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."
Margot Asquith
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Henri Frederic Amiel
"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."
John Donne
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"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Benjamin Disraeli
"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Great men always pay deference to greater."
Walter Savage Landor
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"False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it."
Jean De La BruyFre
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"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less."
Jean De La Bruyere
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world."
Lord Chesterfield
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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
Edward M. Forster
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"The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives."
Henry Miller
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"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."
James A. Froude
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Harry S. Truman
"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."
Harry S. Truman
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Napoleon Bonaparte
"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Harry S. Truman
"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."
Harry S. Truman
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