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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.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of read more
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise read more
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
