#greatness

The poet will only be recited until the death of his language. The violinist will only give recitals until the bowing of nose hairs. ↗

— Bauvard

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — 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. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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The price of greatness is responsibility. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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