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Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate;
But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.
Ah, do you dream to read more

Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate;
But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.
Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great
And to be really great are just the same?

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Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

by Blaise Pascal Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

by Thomas W. Higginson Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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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,

by William Hazlitt Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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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.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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