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Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,
And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.
Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,
And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of read more
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
