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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.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]
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.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Be good and you will be lonely
Be good and you will be lonely
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
