#greatness

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. ↗

— Nelson Boswell

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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ↗

— Walter Scott

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. ↗

— Tecumseh

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