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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Be good and you will be lonely
Be good and you will be lonely
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
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 great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
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.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
