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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., read more
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as read more
Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as the hills,
The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else
Comes on the mind with the like shock as though
Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
