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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be read more
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal read more
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
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.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
